* Carlos E. R.
And I find it easier to diagnose.
For example, grub doesn't recognise my new 160GB hard disk. I had two, one a 60 GB model and another 40 GB for linux, that I wanted to retire, I need more space. But grub doesn't even see it:
grub> root (hd Possible disks are: hd0 hd1
and the new disk is number 3, hdd. I can not install grub there, nor can I use a boot partition there. I haven't tried lilo yet, but I might. I wonder if I could test lilo first without installing it.
That has nothing to do with it. What amtters is if your installler (suse 10 I guess) will see the disk. If suse 10 sees the disk, it can install grub on it, and it will just work. The only reason why i still have lilo on one of my machines is that I have the root partition on a software mirror (/dev/md0) and grub could not handle that at the time I installed the box (and sicne it is working, i ahve never felt the need to change it. Grub should be able to handle having root on software mirros now as well I think.
The "funny" thing is that the bios does see that disk (although incorrectly). Even MsDOS 6.0 (yes, plain old dos) can boot from that disk.
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