[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.
>
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Cheers
Res
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