[lug] Determining if Lilo or Grub is current bootloader

[D. Stimits]

Zan Lynx wrote:

>On Wed, 2007-01-17 at 17:36 -0700, Daniel Webb wrote:
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>>[OT] Is there any need for lilo any more?  Is there anything that lilo can do
>>that grub can't do better?
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>LILO works when it doesn't know anything about the filesystem.  GRUB
>requires a filesystem driver.
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>LILO works on RAID-1 mirrors.  GRUB does not, as far as I know.
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/dev/md0                101018     19390     76412  21% /boot

(CentOS 4.4 x86_64 server, grub-0.95-3.5, kernel 2.6.9-42.0.3.plus.c4smp)

No modifications. In the past the problems I've had with RAID on various 
partitions were not boot loader problems, but init trying to discover 
RAID/LVM prior to loading the scsi controller drivers. The above is for 
inexpensive SATA drives, no special install procedure was required.

D. Stimits, stimits AT comcast DOT net