FC4t2 no good without LILO

[Nathan]

I agree FC4 needs lilo, as an option. We use (god help us) dell
computers as servers, we use raid running on 2 SATA 80gb drives. Grub
will install fine on the dells , but after a while we would get a
strange error, saying "BAD PBR" on boot up, and you can go no further,
without a grub rescue disk that we had to create. The bad pbr would
happen because the grub.conf file would get corrupt and the raid would
try to write it back from the mirrored drive, but the grub could not
handle this. Now we use lilo , which is what we use to do, by default
before Fedora came out. If lilo could get on, as an install option of
the fedora core 4, it would make some many people here happy.
Cheers.
On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 08:57, William Hooper wrote:
> Res said:
> [snip]
> >> So you always compile your own vanilla kernels instead of using the
> >> Core
> >>
> >
> > 99/100 yep
> >
> >
> >> provided ones.  Despite that, you somehow find installing a non-Core
> >> provided boot loader an huge burden?
> >
> > its called choice i choose to roll my own kernels i choose to install lilo
> > because grub cant handle some things and cant handle others as well.
> 
> And not having LILO in core limits your choice how?  You are still able to
> download and install LILO, just like you download and install kernels.
> 
> -- 
> William Hooper