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[Geoffrey Derber <Geoffrey.Derber AT Trinity.edu>]

Adam Clark wrote:
> Okay, but just out of curiosity - did you try and figure out what was going
> wrong with lilo before throwing in that grub disk?  lilo may be a little
> tricky on *some* systems, but it's *supposed* to work on everything.

Some, I played around w/ the lilo.conf file, and tried a few 
configurations, I couldn't get it to work.  Every install I tried 
beginning w/ the ISO from a year ago I've had this problem.  I think it 
had to do w/ my pci controller card.  My first hd is actually /dev/hde 
and my SM is on /dev/hdf and I think this had something to do with it.

Geoff

> On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 17:33:09 -0600
> Geoffrey Derber <Geoffrey.Derber AT Trinity.edu> wrote: >
>
> > Adam Clark wrote:
> >
> > > Nope, and I'm not sure why this keeps coming up - probably ignorance on
> > > my part, but here's what I've seen on this discussion in the past:
> > >
> > > lilo handles pretty much every i386ish system
> >
> > It didn't handle mine, the only reason I was able to boot my system was 
> > because I had a grub boot disk lying around.
> >
> >
> > > grub has problems with some systems
> >
> > I've seen lilo have more problems personally and I have had far fewer 
> > problems with grub.  Also with each release of grub there are fewer and 
> > fewer problems with it.
> >
> > > So, if this is the case and grub is just a 'preference' thing, what's to
> > > stop one from replacing lilo with grub after the install?
> >
> > Not being able to boot the system because lilo doesn't work?
> >
> >
> > > If the above is not true, then we should figure out some option to
> > > supply both on the ISO.
> >
> > I really think we should provide both, and give them the option up 
> > front.  Why force the install of one, when people want to remove it and 
> > install the other later.  Give people the ability to do it once and do 
> > it the way they want.
> >
> > Geoff
> >
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