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GRUB 2 becomes the default bootloader in Ubuntu 9.10GRUB 2 becomes the default bootloader in Ubuntu 9.10Posted Jul 4, 2009 20:54 UTC (Sat) by muwlgr (guest, #35359)Parent article: GRUB 2 becomes the default bootloader in Ubuntu 9.10
LILO works well for me, boots my systems from md/raid1 array.
Don't know why throw it away and replace with GRUB2. The only warts for LILO I noticed for the years are: lack of LVM/LVM2 support (especially if your LVM PVs are created on md arrays themselves), and that it searches for MBRs only on hard disks with BIOS number 0x80 and higher, so fails on BIOSes that assign removable drive numbers for your USB flash (0x2..0x7f). For me, GRUB1 lacks a feature that I often used and liked in LILO: to create a filesystem on the entire unpartitioned volume (like, mkfs.ext3 /dev/sdb) and then to install a bootloader into its boot sector, i.e. the case when you don't have partition table at all. Don't know if GRUB2 could do that. Anyone knows ?
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GRUB 2 becomes the default bootloader in Ubuntu 9.10 Posted Jul 5, 2009 16:53 UTC (Sun) by obi (guest, #5784) [Link]
I've got boxes with root on crypto on lvm2 on md (raid1), and boot on lvm2 on md (raid1). Grub2 can deal with it without difficulty.
As for grub2 on a volume without a partition table - I'll have to try it out.
GRUB 2 becomes the default bootloader in Ubuntu 9.10 Posted Sep 3, 2009 15:53 UTC (Thu) by jmcnulty (guest, #60140) [Link]
This is what I'm looking forward to the most: being able to use disks each with just one single partition to create a single MD raid device with LVM on top containing LVs for boot, swap and /.
That way I can assign another disk as a spare raid disk and have the loss of one whole disk replaced by another whole disk. Right now I can't do that as I have to partition both disks into two and create two raid devices: one for /boot and one for LVM. I can't assign spare disk to each of these as loss of a disk would try and map two spare disks to replace two partitions. Well, either that or it would fall flat on its face. It's so dumb I've not even tried it. GRUB2 solves this dilemma, so it can't arrive fast enough for me.
GRUB 2 becomes the default bootloader in Ubuntu 9.10 Posted Dec 4, 2009 18:14 UTC (Fri) by hop9807 (guest, #62334) [Link]
I find Grub 2 in ubuntu 9.10 64 bit to be a real pain. First of all there is no utility available that will allow one to edit and and it shows up with multiples of the same os if you have several hard drives but only some are actually connected to that os.
When I had to reinstall windows 7 the grub would then not load but gave a grub rescue message. None of the parameters to recover grub worked nor did any of the instructions I used from several "help forums". Ended up having to fix mbr in windows 7. I will never use grub 2 again unless a utility is developed to recover it and edit the entries.
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