Dual Boot Problem - Linux BootLoaders

[J.Markoll]

Vram a écrit :
> On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 04:46 +0100, J.Markoll wrote:
>>When one system does not boot anymore, after a new kernel 
>>was installed, we look at the Grub configuration file, and fix it.
>>By the way, I'm on the point to change for Lilo, in order to observe how 
>>it goes with this brave Lilo, for a while :))
>>Someone has experience for a while, with lilo and it's /etc/lilo.conf 
>>file ?
>>Best Greetings, Joyce Markoll.
> Lilo is going back in time..
> It doesn't have the power of GRUB.

> I can't think of any reason to go backwards.
> Vram
I've read that many times from people, but when my BIOS was too old and 
had to
be updated, (but I searched what and why, before trying) and when my 
connecteurs and cables were not quite good, before I changed them, and 
got disk boot failures with 'Grub 21 error' as it could not see the HDD, 
I reinstalled a distro with lilo, and lilo booted the distro (with 
errors when invoking lilo, but it booted). Lilo can also handle 
dual-boot very well (multiboot I'm not sure).

Grub is supposed to autoconfigure, but the last three kernel updates 
leaded to misconfiguration of the /boot/grub/menu.lst, and the first to 
a kernel panic (I put a glance at the file before rebooting, the other 
times) and this, on two different machines/kernel versions (a k7 and a 686).

The root and kernel lign came with:

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=

root            (hd0,6)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-686 root=/dev/hda8 ro quiet

=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
instead of root=/dev/hda7

what a fun! :(
I keep erasing the 'splash' line, it puts it back each time, too.

That's why I would consider studying Lilo further, and experiment. Why not ?
a '/sbin/lilo' after a kernel update is not a big deal to invoke after 
all. Do anyone know and use it ?
Thanks, and best greetings, Joyce Markoll.


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