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"I forgot to run LILO"

"I forgot to run LILO"

Posted Dec 21, 2010 18:30 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: "I forgot to run LILO" by Duncan
Parent article: Getting grubby with ZFS

I have to say, compared to

boot = /dev/md0
raid-extra-boot

in lilo.conf, that is pretty bloody hideous. It is plain that GRUB has no actual support for this use-case at all, so you're having to in effect reimplement it by installing multiple GRUBs by hand, one in each boot sector. And if you typo you have a silent failure you won't notice until it's too late, while with LILO the stanza above always works (assuming your boot RAID-1 array is /dev/md0 that is).

I'll give it a miss.


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