vote for Lilo

[Samuel Flory]

Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Samuel Flory wrote:
> 
>> Gordon Messmer wrote:
>>
>>> Don't put /boot on a RAID partition... simple.  I don't believe that 
>>> either Grub or LILO are going to work reliably on any RAID type other 
>>> than RAID 1.
>>
>>
>>
>>    Lilo in RH 9 works great on RAID1 arrays.
> 
> 
> That's what I said.  Either Grub or LILO should work on RAID 1, but I 
> don't believe that either will work with RAID 0 or 5.
> 
>> Unlike with grub the RH 9 installer installed lilo to both drives.
> 
> 
> How'd it do that?  I confess that I've not used RH 9 with LILO, but I'm 
> not aware of any special directives that would make that work.  Lilo, 
> like grub is normally installed to the MBR of a drive.  RAID devices 
> will not include that, so perhaps you installed to the superblock of 
> your partition?  That should work with both grub and LILO, but both will 
> need another boot loader on the MBR to chain boot them from their 
> location at the superblock on the RAID partition.


   With lilo you simply give it the md device. (example "boot=/dev/md0")

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