FC4t2 no good without LILO

[shrek-m at gmx.de]

Mike Bird wrote:

>On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 12:37, Jeff Spaleta wrote:
>  
>
>>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
>>    
>>

grub only
# od -c /dev/hda | head -2
0000000 353   H 220 020 216 320 274  \0 260 270  \0  \0 216 330 216 300
0000020 373 276  \0   | 277  \0 006 271  \0 002 363 244 352   ! 006  \0


353 H 220
lba LILO

vs

353 H 220
020 216 320 274

could it be that this part is not really necessary for the bootloading ?

>>that means i really have lilo in my mbr and that its chainloading into grub?
>>    
>>
>It says nothing about your MBR.
>
>>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?
>>    
>>
>/boot/boot.b is the Lilo original and /boot/grub/stage1 is the Grub
>original.  They're both munged a bit during install.  Compare the
>originals with your boot drive MBR as explained previously, e.g.
>
># od -c /dev/hde | head -1
>0000000   ú   ë   |   l   b   a   L   I   L   O 001  \0 025 004   Z  \0
>

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shrek-m