Re: software raid and grub on FC3

From: Brian T. Brunner (brian.t.brunner_at_gai-tronics.com)
Date: 12/07/04

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    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@gai-tronics.com
    (610)796-5838

    >>> amilivojevic@pbl.ca 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.

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