[Bug 154763] Grub is inadequate without Lilo for backup

[Res]

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Mike Bird wrote:

> On Tue, 2005-04-19 at 22:03, Rodd Clarkson wrote:
>> Of course, in all this, keep your mind open.  You might find that by
>> pointing out a specific, definable short coming of grub the developers
>> may choose to get grub up-to-snuff rather than include lilo.
>
> Been there, done that.  As have many others on this list and elsewhere.
> Number one is lack of reliability, followed by lack of predictability
> which is largely a consequence of lack of documentation.


Not to mention i've never met a person yet to get an emergency 
reisntall of a server from rsync'd/tape backups with grub to boot properly 
first go.. its sposed to be some crap like

chroot /mnt/blah
grub-install /dev/sda
grub
root (hd0,0)
setup
reboot

hmmmm a lot of extra crap to do there considering with lilo its

chroot /mnt/blah
lilo
reboot

and works first go everytime without fail!




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Res