On Tue, 2009-02-17 at 08:36 +0100, Bill Maas wrote:
> Hi Philippe,
>
> On Sun, 2009-02-15 at 09:00 +0400, philippe monroux wrote:
> > De (from) (von) <b...@stsx.org> :
> >
> > > On Sat, 2009-02-14 at 19:43 +0100, 686f6c6d wrote:
> > > > I do not fully understand the "remote rootfs/nfs" method you used (if
> > > > you did, but I assume it from the discussion). Could you, for
> > > > completeness, document what you did?
> >
> > > If you have an NFS root available, you can boot the Soekris box from it
> > > and install lilo onto the CF. Requires lilo on the NFS root + a chrooted
> > > "apt-get install lilo" onto the CF's root partition + a 'lilo -C'
> > > against the root partition. Make sure both lilo's are the same version.
> >
> > I understand that but it's not my installation method. Sorry but thanks.
> >
> > > Using a Debian installer image you can install Debian directly onto the
> > > CF after a TFTP boot, but I think you (Philippe) already did that.
> >
> > Sure I do,
> >
> > > Doesn't Debian have an option for installing lilo i.o. GRUB?
> >
> > no...only grub (is lilo old ?)
>
> No, lilo is different. It finds the kernel by means of a CHS value
> stored in the MBR (assuming that the BL lives there..). GRUB first finds
> the first sector of partition to boot from through CHS. This contains
> [part of] the secondary BL, which retrieves the kernel image through the
> filesystem.
>
> That's why you can boot arbitrary images with GRUB but not with lilo.
> But it's also the reason why more can go wrong with GRUB, e.g. with less
> reliable CF cards. See the soekris-tech archives. To my knowledge you
> won't find any 'lilo won't boot my Soekris box' postings in the
> archives.
>
> So GRUB and lilo are both useful depending on the context they are used
> in. But GNU/Linux people just like to "obsolete" stuff:). In this case
> pointing out the fact that these are different tools for different
> purposes would have been more appropriate.
>
> By the way, I think that if you lower the debconf priority level before
> installing Debian ("append priority=high .." in the PXELinux config)
^^
Copy/paste error - "low" of course..
Bill
> the installer will ask if you want to install lilo.
>
>
> Bill
>
> > >Can't remember, but I suspect it is possible (it isn't with a
> > > standard Ubuntu, but that's Ubuntu..).
> > > A colleague of mine once stated that he would never trust anything that
> > > called itself Grand and Unified, he probably was right;)
> >
> > Perhaps the solution is to install grub on the 1rst partition (that is
> > not on the mbr). I'll try this
> >
>
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