[lug] Grub Install

[Stephen Queen]

On 1/29/07, David Morris <lists at morris-clan.net> wrote:
> I have a new mission in life:  Find the person who dreamed
> up randomly assigning device letters at boot (e.g. /dev/sda)
> and kill him.
>
> As I mentioned in the previous thread, my hard disks are
> playing musical chairs with eachother.  Theoretically, the
> fix is to use UUID's provided by udev.
>
> Except LILO can't use them.  Only option in LILO is to edit
> lilo.conf every single time lilo is rerun.  I am *not* going
> to go through that nightmare!
>
> Ok, install Grub.
>
> Nice theory, but grub-install will not run.  It just hangs
> and after about 20 minutes the system begins to get less and
> less usable until eventually it crashes.  At least it leaves
> lilo in the MBR so I can (with difficulty) boot up.
>
> Any ideas on how to find out why grub-install refuses to
> work?  Or how to convince LILO to use udev disk paths?
>
> Typing in a 60-character device string every time I
> want to boot my computer in less than half a dozen retries
> is getting old *really* fast.
>
> Especially when I loose the piece of paper with that
> 60-character string written on it.
>
I haven't tried it but there is an article dicussing persistant device
names here.
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7316

Steve