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Re: [SLE] LILO vs GRUB
- From: Gerhard den Hollander <gdenhollander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 3 Nov 2005 12:32:18 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <20051103123133.GH1216@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
* Carlos E. R. <robin1.listas@xxxxxxxxxx> (Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 12:54:09PM +0100)
> And I find it easier to diagnose.
> For example, grub doesn't recognise my new 160GB hard disk. I had two, one
> a 60 GB model and another 40 GB for linux, that I wanted to retire, I need
> more space. But grub doesn't even see it:
> grub> root (hd
> Possible disks are: hd0 hd1
> and the new disk is number 3, hdd. I can not install grub there, nor can I
> use a boot partition there. I haven't tried lilo yet, but I might. I
> wonder if I could test lilo first without installing it.
That has nothing to do with it.
What amtters is if your installler (suse 10 I guess) will see the disk.
If suse 10 sees the disk, it can install grub on it, and it will just work.
The only reason why i still have lilo on one of my machines is that I have
the root partition on a software mirror (/dev/md0) and grub could not
handle that at the time I installed the box (and sicne it is working, i
ahve never felt the need to change it. Grub should be able to handle having
root on software mirros now as well I think.
>
> The "funny" thing is that the bios does see that disk (although
> incorrectly). Even MsDOS 6.0 (yes, plain old dos) can boot from that disk.
>
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> And I find it easier to diagnose.
> For example, grub doesn't recognise my new 160GB hard disk. I had two, one
> a 60 GB model and another 40 GB for linux, that I wanted to retire, I need
> more space. But grub doesn't even see it:
> grub> root (hd
> Possible disks are: hd0 hd1
> and the new disk is number 3, hdd. I can not install grub there, nor can I
> use a boot partition there. I haven't tried lilo yet, but I might. I
> wonder if I could test lilo first without installing it.
That has nothing to do with it.
What amtters is if your installler (suse 10 I guess) will see the disk.
If suse 10 sees the disk, it can install grub on it, and it will just work.
The only reason why i still have lilo on one of my machines is that I have
the root partition on a software mirror (/dev/md0) and grub could not
handle that at the time I installed the box (and sicne it is working, i
ahve never felt the need to change it. Grub should be able to handle having
root on software mirros now as well I think.
>
> The "funny" thing is that the bios does see that disk (although
> incorrectly). Even MsDOS 6.0 (yes, plain old dos) can boot from that disk.
>
Kind regards,
--
Gerhard den Hollander Phone :+31-70.3.170.515
Global ICT manager Direct:+31-70.3.170.539
Fugro-Jason Fax :+31-70.3.170.511
gdenhollander@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx POBox 35
visit us at http://www.Fugro-Jason.com 2260 AA Leidschendam
The Netherlands
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