Quoting Shachar Shemesh, from the post of Sat, 21 May: > Ira Abramov wrote: > > >I have two must-have features in LILO that grub doesn't do at the > >moment. > > > I know of two, that may or may not be the two you are referring to too. > > 1. LILO allows booting from software RAID-1 partitions in a fault > tolerant way. > 2. LILO allows the "-R" option, where you select the next kernel to boot > from differently than the default kernel. This allows upgrading kernels > on remote computers with little risk of being locked out of the machine.
yap, those exact two features are what I aimed at (To Omer and Muli) lately I've been installing all my servers (as well as clients') with software raid, since most of the SATA and IDE RAID options on blades and "whitebox" 1U enclosures are not supported. Debian installer started offering GRUB as well, but after getting stuck with unbootable machines twice, I figured it out. get a regular MBR, set your /boot or /root or what have you as "bootable" for the MBR, then install lilo on your /dev/md0 or what have you. easy and painless. > Both features can be emulated using a fairly complex GRUB menu system, > but I never bother. I use LILO for servers. they can? well, I wouldn't bother either. I need it there at install time, not retroactively. debian-installer fails miserably installing GRUB on an MD, and I don't want to shell out to fix it manually each time. -- Another bad creation Ira Abramov http://ira.abramov.org/email/ ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
