On Monday 10 October 2005 09:05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > 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.
Sounds like baby duck syndrome. Across the years lilo has bitten me lots and grub never! EG using lilo you copy a new kernel, forget to run lilo, and try to boot seems like a much easier mistake than forgetting to install grub properly. EG you've screwed up your grub config, end of world ? No just edit it and make it right and then try to boot again. All you need to do is install it correctly once ever! IMHO James -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
