Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (4570 mails)

[Bruce Marshall <bmarsh@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 02 November 2005 09:39 am, 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.
>
> Matt

I have installed 10.0 on a machine with a SATA drive... an Intel motherboard 
-- so the problem must lie either with your hardware situation or possibly 
your BIOS settings for IDE/SATA.

It is possible that the SATA drive switched position (numbering) when the 
system rebooted..  and that a grub setting might cure the boot problem.