Grub sucks!

[Tim]

On Fri, 2007-06-29 at 23:54 -0300, Thomas Tschoepke Soares wrote:
> Then, after 2 ugly cases with Grub - at one it deletes all partitions
> on two HDs... (i could recover all with TestDisck) i moved "back" to
> LILO and will stay on it. 

I can't say that I've ever come across GRUB destroying partitions,
despite all manner of fiddling over the years.  I wonder whether you'd
partitioned your hard drive using one of those tools that puts its
information somewhere that it shouldn't, so it overlapped the MBR.

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[tim at bigblack ~]$ rm -rfd /*^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Huname -ipr
2.6.21-1.3228.fc7 i686 i386

Using FC 4, 5, 6 & 7, plus CentOS 5.  Today, it's FC7.

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