Dual Boot Problem - Linux BootLoaders

[Vram]

On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 06:39 +0100, J.Markoll wrote:
> 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.
> 

Ok.. So I used it for years..

What do you want to know???

I resisted switching to GRUB!!!!


Vram




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