Another note: lilo was not an option during FC3 install. It was Grub or Nothing. lilo was not a listed option in package selection, but since I checked "everything" so I guess (from reading this list) I'll find it installed. Whoever decided I'd be better off without lilo should be condemned to work for Microsoft. Brian Brunner brian.t.brunner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (610)796-5838 >>> amilivojevic@xxxxxx 12/07/04 09:30AM >>> John Summerfield wrote: > On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 08:21 -0600, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote: > >>Use LILO instead. If you choose LILO as your boot loader during > > lilo is deprecated and so likely to not be in fc4. Hmmm... Too bad. Grub is nice, but for simple things such as servers, it is total overkill. IMHO, LILO is much more suitable for that kind of environment. BTW, while we are at servers and Grub vs LILO, has anybody here attempted to use Grub on serial console? Is that possible at all, and how usable it is? While Grub has more options and is more configurable it is also much more complex. If you don't know anything about LILO, man page will get you going in couple of minutes. If you don't know anything about Grub, you are likely to spend much more time reading man pages and Googling around, before you will be able to make simple configuration and place Grub on the boot sector (provided you are doing this by hand, not by letting Anaconda or RPM postinstall scripts do "dirty" job for you). > It is possible to install grub on both disks of mirror RAID - Google is > your friend. Yes, I know that. Actually, I had a script that I was using to fix the problem automatically during kickstart postinstall phase. Before I decided that Grub is overkill for what I needed, and went back to using LILO. It was simply that I noticed I never ever used any of advanced features of Grub, and that LILO was better fit for the job in my case. -- Aleksandar Milivojevic <amilivojevic@xxxxxx> Pollard Banknote Limited Systems Administrator 1499 Buffalo Place Tel: (204) 474-2323 ext 276 Winnipeg, MB R3T 1L7 -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list ******************************************************************* This email and any files transmitted with it are confidential and intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom they are addressed. If you have received this email in error please notify the system manager. This footnote also confirms that this email message has been swept for the presence of computer viruses. www.hubbell.com - Hubbell Incorporated
