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.