On Tue, 04 Oct 2016 09:45:35 +0200 Jörg Schaible <joerg.schai...@bpm-inspire.com> wrote:
> -1 > > I'd love to move to grub2 for all of my machines, but it does simply not > work for one of my servers. I can install grub2 and it tells me that > installation and anything else went fine, but when I try to boot with it, it > stops and reports me that it found some conflicting area in my bios why it > cannot work (sorry, I tell this from my memory, I've tried it quite some > time ago). Mr. Google says that this may happen for some hardware, but has > no solution to it. > > So, what are my options (or other people's options with such incompatible > hardware) without grub 1? Lilo? Just FYI, I'm using lilo successfully for years and never seen a reason to install another operating system in my boot sector. However, lilo is obviously less fool-proof, and you certainly want a simple filesystem for /boot (like ext2). -- Best regards, Michał Górny <http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/>
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