END OF DISCUSSION: Grub is inadequate without Lilo for backup

[Alexandre Oliva]

On Apr 21, 2005, John Morris <jmorris at beau.org> wrote:

> Grub can only boot a RAID if it can own the MBR which isn't always
> practical or even possible.

Not true.  I do that myself.  I always have two separate /boot
partitions, one for the latest stable install (say FC3), one for the
latest experimental install (FC4test, development, whatever).  The
stable owns the MBR, and, by default, chainloads the experimental
one.

grub-install and anaconda insist in transferring ownership of the MBR
to the experimental one, that's true.  But it's not a limitation of
grub.  I can use the grub shell to fix things up myself, and it has no
problem whatsoever booting up once things are set up to my linking.

So, if anything, it's a minor thing in grub-install, which is just a
wrapper helper script for grub.  grub itself is fine.

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