Hi, While fooling around on a spare drive with install options on Suse 9.0... I choose the Raid option. Now the bootloader defaulted to Lilo while on a normal install it defaults to Grub. Please...could there be any reason for that. Being a Grubby ...tried and was able to make a grub install and booting. Thanks -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning - Still learning.
Johan wrote:
Hi, While fooling around on a spare drive with install options on Suse 9.0... I choose the Raid option.
Now the bootloader defaulted to Lilo while on a normal install it defaults to Grub.
Please...could there be any reason for that.
Being a Grubby ...tried and was able to make a grub install and booting.
Thanks
To my knowledge it seems that lilo is more "RAID friendly" than grub. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, a working configuration of grub + RAID would be great. The official Linux software RAID howto seems to hint towards using lilo as well.. http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/Software-RAID-HOWTO-7.html#ss7.3 "The author does not yet know of any easy method for making the Grub boot-loader write the boot-records on all disks of a RAID-1. Please share your wisdom if you know how to do this."
Avtar Gill wrote:
Johan wrote:
While fooling around on a spare drive with install options on Suse 9.0... I choose the Raid option.
Now the bootloader defaulted to Lilo while on a normal install it defaults to Grub.
Please...could there be any reason for that.
Being a Grubby ...tried and was able to make a grub install and booting.
To my knowledge it seems that lilo is more "RAID friendly" than grub. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, a working configuration of grub + RAID would be great. The official Linux software RAID howto seems to hint towards using lilo as well..
That is fairly current on it's face, but I wonder about that particular section's age. Grub hasn't been the bootloader of choice for very long, and it's development is proceeding nicely. AFAIK, old lilo isn't seeing a lot of development.
"The author does not yet know of any easy method for making the Grub boot-loader write the boot-records on all disks of a RAID-1. Please share your wisdom if you know how to do this."
http://en.tldp.org/HOWTO/ATA-RAID-HOWTO/ is well over a year old. -- "Surely God would not have created such a being as man to exist only a day! No, no, man was made for immortality." President Abraham Lincoln Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/
On Sat, 20 Mar 2004 14:27:40 -0500
Avtar Gill
Johan wrote:
Hi, While fooling around on a spare drive with install options on Suse 9.0... I choose the Raid option.
Now the bootloader defaulted to Lilo while on a normal install it defaults to Grub.
Please...could there be any reason for that.
Being a Grubby ...tried and was able to make a grub install and booting.
Thanks
To my knowledge it seems that lilo is more "RAID friendly" than grub. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, a working configuration of grub + RAID would be great. The official Linux software RAID howto seems to hint towards using lilo as well.. << snip >>
********************************* Ok here is my working menu.lst...I actually cheated...took the menu.lst from one of my other drives and modified it to fit my needs. What is importend it works for me. You have to install grub on the HD. If you are running suse 9.0 all the files should be in place except the menu.lst. can be done like this.. create a file menu.lst of the bottom example...place it in /boot/grub/ Then do this.. type ..grub grub> root (hd0,0) grub> setup (hd0) grub> quit reboot. Trust you have a means of booting your system if this fails....and then run /sbin/lilo -v to return to original bootloader. The menu.lst should be modified for your own needs. ************ # Revision Date 02 March 2004 on Suse 9.0 timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan i18n (hd0,0)/boot/grub/messages keytable (hd0,0)/boot/us.klt altconfigfile (hd0,0)/boot/grub/menu.once default 1 #******************************************* title Suse 9.0 kernel-99-K_delft hde md0 kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/md0 vga=0x314 splash=silent desktop hdd=ide-scsi hdb=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd #******************************************* title floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 #**************************************************************** title Memory Test kernel (hd0,4)/boot/memtest.bin #**************************************************************** HTH Goodluck -- Johan Registered Linux User #330034 May this be a good day for learning - Still learning.
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