John Richard Smith wrote: > > On Saturday 23 February 2002 02:19, you wrote:
> Hello George , your on the right track. You see the above creates the correct > files and their text entries , after exiting VI , I cat the files and the > new enties are there, but rebooting simply removes them, they disappear, > fstab returns to old text, and lilo.conf is deleted. That is why they don't > boot. john, as we have tended to agree, something is getting blown away, and from this, you have, in my opinion, confirmed this. so, as a suggestion, more experience with installations... because things are being as they are and you are not getting what you want from 'default' install, do not do a multi partition install. something is squirrel ing multi partition install and instead of continuing in that direction, reinstall on a single partition and _install_lilo_ instead of grub. as i said before, lilo is proven, grub is new and needs to age. personally, i think biggest problem with grub, is they are trying to make grub a 'super loader' and from what i have experienced with it and read in bug-grub post, there are too many folks trying to use grub and are having trouble with it. granted, there are a lot of installs made with grub and they work. but to me, there are too many that do not work. i tried a multi partition with lm7.1 and it was screwed up, so i did a reinstall to a single partition and it worked fine. because of that, i install lm8.0 to a single partition and it worked fine also. when i install lm8.1, i will make it a single partition install, after which, i will spread it across several partitions. i would bet that if a survey was made of this list, most would report they use lilo because of problems with grub. i may be wrong. i wish i could give you a more positive answer to your problem, but i am now tending to believe that either you have a bad download, or there is some sort of incompatibility with your hardware and it is causing you problems. good luck. let us know what you decide. tc,hago. g . -- think green... save a tree, save a life, save time, save bandwidth, save storage. send email, text/plain - disable pgp/gpg/geek code =+= if you are proud to be an american, then buy "made in america".
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