FC4t2 no good without LILO

[Jeff Spaleta]

On 4/14/05, Mike Bird <mgb-fedora at yosemite.net> wrote:
> Paul,
> 
> LILO is still the primary boot-loader on your system.  The characters
> 'LILO' show that LILO is still in both MBR's.  Grub did not install to
> the MBR's as you and I both observed in our respective tests.  LILO is
> handling the boot on your system and then chaining to Grub.  I warned
> you last night that you might have to do an install from the grub
> command line.
> 
> LILO as the primary boot loader looks like this:
> 
> # od -c /boot/boot.b | head -1
> 0000000   ú   ë   |   l   b   a   L   I   L   O 001  \0 025 004  \0  \0
> # od -c /dev/hde | head -1
> 0000000   ú   ë   |   l   b   a   L   I   L   O 001  \0 025 004   Z  \0
> 
> Grub as the primary boot loader would look something like this:


So on my single disk non raid system... with fc2 installed
because od -c /boot/boot.b | head -1 reports back
0000000 353   H 220   l   b   a   L   I   L   O 001  \0 025 004   Z  \0

that means i really have lilo in my mbr and that its chainloading into grub?
Really? This disk has been used to do fresh installs of red hat from
rhl 6.2 all the way through fc2 now. But I'm really actually still
using lilo? And its chainbooting grub?
Really?

-jef