On 9 Oct, To: Sydney Linux Users Group wrote: > I'll persevere with lilo, therefore, but may end up having to > experiment with grub.
Lilo wasn't up to the task - best I could get was to see "Loading Fedora .........................." and then a hang. I guess it needs bios support to see the larger drive. I tried grub, but forgot to copy the grub files onto the boot partition. Naturally, good ol' dumb o' grub didn't report this catastrophic error, it just went ahead. Now I have a system that says: Searching for Boot Record from IDE-0..OK and then hangs. Grub really suffers from the old Unix "who cares about usability? / as long as users make no mistakes it all works brilliantly" syndrome. Anyway, tomorrow I'll rescue again, make a grub directory on the boot partition, copy the grub files from fedora across, and try again. Sigh. God I hate grub. </grumble> Oh - I forgot to ask. I'm assuming that unlike lilo, grub *doesn't* need the BIOS to be able to read data from the drives. Is that true? luke -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
