Jeff Mahoney wrote:
Lilo should be taken out back and shot. This is even more true as more file systems are developed that lilo can't possibly ever work with, like btrfs.
That's a nice goal that I would have subscribed to for years. But then I got a workstation that doesn't boot with grub. No error messages, no action after BIOS setup, nothing. (grub has been installed in MBR, as usual.) /boot is an own partition, at the start of the disk, ext3. Thus, standard setup, but grub won't work. After several hours of hair pulling -- and I've got already a grey beard and very few hair :-) :-) -- I tried LILO. Well, what should I say -- it worked from the start and without a hitch. Having had no problems on this systems 'till then. OK; I have to update lilo.conf manually at each kernel update, but that's seldom enough not to be a complete nuisance. `Manually' means `I wrote a script to do it', of course. Still reminds me of my time with 0.99.4, when I started to use Linux... :-) I always thought that I should try to pin down the actual problem, maybe see if grub 2 takes care of this hardware constellation; but tracking this kind of problem is very time intensive, and that didn't work out. So, there's still a place for LILO, for the old-timers of us who know how to use it and when it saves our back in dure times. Joachim [using Linux since 1993 or so, and being used to LILO for decades] PS: FWIW, Disks are Seagate ST3750330AS on SATA, workstation is from a German manufacturer named Transtec. Since I won't buy from Transtec any more after they stopped supporting Linux on their workstations, the problem is mood, anyhow. -- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Joachim Schrod Email: jschrod@acm.org Roedermark, Germany -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org