[Bug 154763] Grub is inadequate without Lilo for backup

Res res at ausics.net
Wed Apr 20 21:35:27 UTC 2005


On Thu, 20 Apr 2005, Alexandre Oliva wrote:

> On Apr 20, 2005, Res <res at ausics.net> wrote:
>
>> grub-install /dev/sda
>
> This is pretty much equivalent (except for mistakes you appear to have
> made for not being sufficiently familiar with grub) to:

ah then the lack of documentation seems to be a valid point, then again if 
its the same as why when hte 3 times I know its been tried it failed?
putting lilo on it and running lilo and it booted right away.


>
>> grub
>> root (hd0,0)
>> setup
>
> I.e., grub-install is equivalent to lilo, making them both just as
> `difficult' to use, with the difference that you don't have to re-run
> grub-install every time you change your boot loader configuration.
>
> --
> Alexandre Oliva             http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/
> Red Hat Compiler Engineer   aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org}
> Free Software Evangelist  oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
>

-- 
Cheers
Res




More information about the fedora-test-list mailing list