On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 12:32:32PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: > On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 11:03 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: > > This morning at power up I got a gray screen with a flashing cursor > > instead of the usual Lilo choice of boot options. At first I thought a > > hard drive had died but after booting up from a Grml cd I found both ide > > hard drives accessible and ok. I re-ran lilo but this did not correct > > the problem. Thinking that something had damaged the mbr on the first > > ide hard drive I ran lilo again to use the the mbr on the second ide > > hard drive. When I went into BIOS to change the boot sequence I found a > > SATA hard drive had been moved to the top of the boot sequence! When > > this was corrected I could boot from the first ide drive. > > I would strongly consider switching to grub in the not-so-distant > future. LILO is currently a candidate for removal from Debian. No it's not. There was a discussion on debian-devel, but the conclusion was that lilo has to stay for a while because it has features that grub does not. Regards, Andrei -- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough. (Albert Einstein)
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