On Mon, 6 Apr 2009 17:03:10 +0800 Paul Wise <pabs@debian.org> wrote: > On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 4:49 PM, Romain Beauxis wrote: > > > I also use lilo for /boot on LVM and I also clearly remember that > > was the major reason for the previous debate about the removal of > > lilo. > > Grub2 in lenny and later contains an lvm module: > > /usr/lib/grub/i386-pc/lvm.mod > > Has anyone who uses lilo for this tried grub2? Yes, I do and it works without problems. There are some inconveniences, though, with grub2, which might make some stick with LILO: * on boot it takes quite some time for grub2 to scan the disks for LVM volumes * configuration of grub2 is really a PITA The is no simple configuration file that one could edit. You have to write scripts to add entries. You can't specify the default entry (only the number of the entry, which changes if a new kernel is installed) and there is no vmlinuz/vmlinuz.old (unless you add a script that adds these entries) You can't specify boot options per entry (there's only a global option in /etc/default grub, that applies to all entries). Cheers, harry
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