On Sun, May 22, 2005 at 11:01:40AM +0300, Ira Abramov wrote: > Quoting Alex Alexander, from the post of Sun, 22 May: > > > > Grub worked fine for me on a RAID-1 dual SATA machine. > > > > Debian Installer (RC3 - pre-final) installed grub on the first drive > > and the machine boots like a charm. You just have to > > > > grub > > root (hd1,0) > > setup (hd1) > > > > to make the second harddisk bootable (in case the first one fails). > > "just have to" is not good enough. not documented enough, and what's > with having to learn yet another commandline with non-standard disk > enumeration and partition numbering?
What's the equivalent with lilo? > this MAY be excellent for someone > who uses it daily maybe but I need it only once every few weeks or > months, Muggles will only use it once a year or less. And those people will need grub even less, hence the under-docuemntation. Lilo needs re-running on every kernel installation, unlike grub. Device files are a strange convention to follow. What happens in a chroot environment? To grub you simply tell "boot from the first disk on the system". > Why should someone > start searching non-existant info pages each time?! use grub-install and not grub or grub-setup for simple cases. > the lilo.conf file > is so much simpler that I rarely needed the manpage other than for smart > menucoloring or password features, which are definitely perks more than > basic features. It's simpler because you're used to its limitations and to lilo's way of thinking. lilo uses devices. BTW: grub-install can use device-files, but it will not do for the above example of a raid. If you really want, you can script around the problem, or bug your distro to do so. -- Tzafrir Cohen | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | VIM is http://tzafrir.org.il | | a Mutt's [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | best ICQ# 16849755 | | friend ================================================================= 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]
