Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Mike McMullin <mwmcmlln@xxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 2005-11-02 at 06:39 -0800, Matt Stamm wrote:
> I'm recent pruchased a new PC with a single SATA drive.
> I was unable to install SUSE to this PC using the default
> install. Every install attempt resulted in a GRUB error
> on the initial boot after the first CD. Changing the
> bootloader from GRUB to LILO fixed the problem and
> resulted in a successfull install.
> 
> I'm concerned that I could not install SUSE with the
> default settings. It appears that SUSE, and the Linux
> community prefers GRUB and that GRUB is a more powerful
> bootloader than LILO. I do not plan on having any other
> OS on this PC other than SUSE.
> 
> Should I be concerned that I could not use GRUB?
> 
> What is the downside to using LILO instead of GRUB ?
> 
> Any advise or comment would be appreciated.

  When you do a kernel update with lilo as the boot loader you need to
drop to a shell and issue the command (as root IIRC) /sbin/lilo.  ON the
plus side, if you were doing a multi-boot machine, you can actually
choose which OS to reboot into.