-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 06/29/08 16:18, Andrei Popescu wrote: > On Sun, Jun 29, 2008 at 12:32:32PM -0700, Paul Johnson wrote: >> On Sun, 2008-06-29 at 11:03 -0400, Thomas H. George wrote: >>> This morning at power up I got a gray screen with a flashing cursor >>> instead of the usual Lilo choice of boot options. At first I thought a >>> hard drive had died but after booting up from a Grml cd I found both ide >>> hard drives accessible and ok. I re-ran lilo but this did not correct >>> the problem. Thinking that something had damaged the mbr on the first >>> ide hard drive I ran lilo again to use the the mbr on the second ide >>> hard drive. When I went into BIOS to change the boot sequence I found a >>> SATA hard drive had been moved to the top of the boot sequence! When >>> this was corrected I could boot from the first ide drive. >> I would strongly consider switching to grub in the not-so-distant >> future. LILO is currently a candidate for removal from Debian. > > No it's not. There was a discussion on debian-devel, but the conclusion > was that lilo has to stay for a while because it has features that grub > does not.
I saw that thread too, but never saw any email from an ftp-master relenting. - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "Kittens give Morbo gas. In lighter news, the city of New New York is doomed." -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAkhoP5oACgkQS9HxQb37Xmfc0QCdHFXkc0rHv+GrUbJ95jhFyyK/ 1dgAnA+qhwFk9CtzIJFPXNNGLl4NXYJf =zOix -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
