FC4t2 no good without LILO

[Paul Iadonisi]

On Thu, 2005-04-14 at 14:59 -0600, Guy Fraser wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-13-04 at 13:53 -0400, Paul Iadonisi wrote:
> > On Wed, 2005-04-13 at 11:11 -0600, Guy Fraser wrote:
> > 
> > [snip]
> > 
> > > Although I have read the documentation for GRUB, I still have 
> > > no idea why it wouldn't work no matter what files I modified 
> > > and updated grub. Only fresh installs after replacing or 
> >       ^^^^^^^
> > 
> > > changing a drive would work.
> > 
> >   Maybe I'm barking up the wrong tree, here, but please, do tell: what
> > do you mean by 'updated' grub?
> > 
> 
> grub-install ...

  So now we are getting somewhere.  In a phrase, DON'T DO THAT.  This is
not lilo and whatever you might think of lilo vs. grub, that is one
horribly hackish thing that lilo has done since, it seems, it's
inception: update the boot record for every kernel update.  Grub doesn't
do that, nor need to do that, nor should any bootloader need to do that.
It's an inherently risky thing to do, as it could render your system
unbootable with no recourse other than rescue mode, which is a little
challenging for machines at remote data centers.

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