Lilo vs Grub

ninja · Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2002 11:09 am Post subject: Lilo vs Grub

This is probably a stupid question but can you install lilo instead of grub with gentoo? :oops:

Buzzz · Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2002 11:19 am Post subject:

Just do a emerge lilo after you followed the installation steps and are going to install grub.
Then create a /etc/lilo.conf en run /sbin/lilo and lilo should be installed. If it doesn't work because you are still in the chroot, then log out of the chroot and copy /mnt/gentoo/sbin/lilo to /sbin/lilo and /mnt/gentoo/etc/lilo.conf to /etc/lilo.conf (I had to do this, because my ataraid device was not in the chroot'ed /dev/ directory).

I still prefer lilo, since grub destroyed my raid twice....

Guest · Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2002 3:07 pm Post subject: GRUB and ataraid

Buzzz

If you don't want GRUB to destroy your RAID array, make a GRUB boot floppy and then install GRUB from there after rebooting. This means that GRUB sees your array as one big drive rather than two smaller drives and one big drive (small drives are array members at /dev/hdX and the big drive is the RAID array at /dev/ataraid/X). I found that on my Highpoint 370 controller, GRUB would not work with the ext2fs stage 1.5 loader, but would work fine if using just stage 2. I now prefer GRUB, after reading the excellent tutorial by Daniel Robbins (available in the 'Articles' section off of the main Gentoo webpage)
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Dave

Buzzz · Posted: Wed Apr 17, 2002 5:05 pm Post subject:

I've read a dozen tutorials on GRUB and even with boot floppies I couldn't get it to work (not even boot the system with the boot disk). That's why I still use lilo and I'm happy with it. I really don't care very much about how my bootmanager looks like, or how fast it is. If it works, i'm happy