Re: Grub vs LILO
On Tue, Jan 16, 2001 at 10:55:44AM +1100, Brian May wrote:
> >>>>> "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...
Well, I think like any software that manipulates fundamnental
locations on your disk drives, like boot sectors, it is not
suprising that it warns you that you have no-one to complain
to if it doesn't work .. lol. It is erring on the side
of over-worrying you ...
Cliff
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