lilo vs grub

[Pekka Savola]

On Mon, 20 Oct 2003, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Monday 20 October 2003 08:07, Chris Ricker uttered:
> > This is because grub can't be installed to /dev/md?. LILO, in contrast,
> > can.
> >
> > You can work around it by manually installing GRUB to both components in
> > the mirror, but that's lame....
> 
> Not really, because I'm sure thats what LILO is doing in it's code.  Since the 
> device /dev/md0 doesn't exist until after the kernel creates it, there is no 
> way that lilo can know about it's physical location.  I'm pretty sure that 
> lilo just has code to detect a mirror, and then just installs itself on each 
> part of the mirror.  Last time I checked, Linux software raid didn't mirror 
> the boot sector.

That's exactly what *lilo* is doing, but the point was that grub is
forcing the *user* to do it manually, right?

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