lilo vs grub

[Chris Ricker]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Jesse Keating wrote:

> On Monday 20 October 2003 07:39, Chris Ricker uttered:
> > Because it works in situations where grub doesn't. Some are relatively
> > obscure hardware issues, but others are more universal (like dealing with
> > RAID 1)
> 
> How dealing with RAID 1?  I use grub with software RAID 1 (boot mirrored as 
> well), and hardware RAID 1.  I've had no issues with it, perhaps you could 
> share your issues?

grub only gets installed to one of the two disks in the mirror. If that one
fails, you can't boot.

This is because grub can't be installed to /dev/md?. LILO, in contrast, can.

You can work around it by manually installing GRUB to both components in the 
mirror, but that's lame....

later,
chris