[Bug 154763] Grub is inadequate without Lilo for backup
Mike Bird
mgb-fedora at yosemite.net
Wed Apr 20 17:39:04 UTC 2005
On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 09:38, Guy Fraser wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-20-04 at 07:11 -0500, Kyle Pointer wrote:
> > I'm wondering. What architecture did all this GRUB trouble start on?
> > And what sort of partition setup?
> > I've been using FC4test2 since the day it came out and I have not had a
> > single problem with either bootloader. They both worked fine for me.
> > Just in case it has anything to do with partition table I'll post mine.
> >
> > ( 160G Western Digital IDE Hard Drive )
> > 98% ext3 /
> > 2% swap
> >
> > I have not had a single problem.
> > -- kyle
> With a single ATA Drive you won't.
Not true, Guy. We have a non-MD test box just for laughs. It's easy to
construct failure cases. Just browse the source for a few minutes.
# df /BOOT
Filesystem 1K-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on
/its-a-long-way-to-tipperary/bootdev
97570 10926 81606 12% /BOO
# du /BOOT
12 /BOOT/lost+found
3 /BOOT/grub
181 /BOOT/boot/grub
182 /BOOT/boot
6812 /BOOT
# grub-install --root-directory=/BOOT /dev/hda
You must set the root directory by the option --root-directory, because
/BOOT/boot/grub does not exist in the root device Could not find device
for /BOOT/boot.
# lilo
Added 2.6.11-1.1226_F *
Added 2.6.11-1.14_FC3
#
--Mike Bird
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