[Bug 154763] Grub is inadequate without Lilo for backup

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr 20, 2005, Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:

> grub-install /dev/sda

This is pretty much equivalent (except for mistakes you appear to have
made for not being sufficiently familiar with grub) to:

> grub
> root (hd0,0)
> setup

I.e., grub-install is equivalent to lilo, making them both just as
`difficult' to use, with the difference that you don't have to re-run
grub-install every time you change your boot loader configuration.

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