Am Sa, den 03.04.2004 schrieb Alexander Dalloz um 21:19: > Am Sa, den 03.04.2004 schrieb Res um 11:18: > > > is there a trick to the old cp -a blah blah dirs /newdisk > > then install lilo from CD, to hard drive upgrades with grub... all we do > > with lilo work fine, but seeing as RH seem to not even offer you the > > choice to use the most commonly used bootloader around anymore, wonder what > > other ppls experiences have been in doing disk upgrades with grub, our > > first attempt failed dismally, gave up after 2 hours, when we use the lilo > > boxes ( RH9 as it was upgrades to 9 and never a clean install ) and > > slackware boxes we can do in 20 mins, and 18 of those 20 is the cp -a :) > > Fedora still comes with lilo, while grub is default bootmanager. I last > installed Fedora in December and so I can not certain remember, but I > think the install routine allows you to decide whether to use grub or > lilo. At least lilo is installable afterwards. > > Alexander > Lilo cannot be installed during a normal installation (caused very controversial discussions on the test-list ;-)), but anaconda creates a lilo.conf, so it's very easy to install lilo. cp /lilo.conf.anaconda /etc/lilo.conf up2date -nox lilo (or install from disc 3) rpm -e grub /sbin/lilo If you are looking for a really fast way to setup boxes you can do an automatic kickstart install, in kickstart lilo is still available. BTW: I never had problems using GRUB. No problems with updates. Christoph
