> I'm pretty sure rh9 was delivered with lilo, as grub hadn't been
> invented then. There should be a lilo rpm somewhere on the install
> disks.

No, it came with both, grub being default. Or anyway, I had installed a
laptop disk from RH9 CDs, and now copied that disk with
tar -cf | ... | tar -xf onto a second disk. Unfortunately, RH doesn't
save the grub command they use to install the boot loader anywhere, and
I don't seem to get it right.

SuSE puts a

setup --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,4) (hd0,4)
quit

into /etc/grub.conf, so re-installation simply goes with
grub --batch </etc/grub.conf
which also works from any bootable Linux live CD system if you manage to
use chroot.

This grub command doesn't work for RH though, which is so stupid it
doesn't even find its device.map in its own default location (with
separate /boot partition).

anaconda (once I got it installed - phew) only throws a "missing
installation method" on start.

Arrrgh...

Volker

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