Re: Grub vs LILO
>>>>> "Joachim" == Joachim Trinkwitz <jtr@uni-bonn.de> writes:
Joachim> Could it be simpler than launching a `grub-install
Joachim> /dev/sda' (or whichever partition you wants to install it
Joachim> to)? You should have copied all the files in
Joachim> /usr/share/grub/i386/ to a directory /boot/grub/ (don't
Joachim> know why the postinst script can't do that as well) and
Joachim> have got a working /boot/grub/menu.lst (the counterpart
Joachim> of lilo.conf) previously, of course.
My version has no grub-install - is this something new in unstable?
Instead my version has a shell that can be started from the Unix
prompt. The info page comes with a warning, that it uses "raw
devices", and installing it while the file-systems are in use may
corrupt the file-systems. It gives a list of steps to minimise the
"danger", such as un-mounting drives first or mounting it read-only.
Instead the recommended way is to copy grub on to a floppy disk, boot
from it, and install it from the disk. Which is rather difficult in my
experience, as floppy disks only seem to work for one boot before
dying :-(.
Seems to be a bit paranoid to me. I am hopeful that the situation has
now improved...
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Brian May <bam@debian.org>
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