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On Tue, 04 Oct 2016 09:45:35 +0200 |
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Jörg Schaible <joerg.schaible@×××××××××××.com> wrote: |
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> I'd love to move to grub2 for all of my machines, but it does simply not |
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> work for one of my servers. I can install grub2 and it tells me that |
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> installation and anything else went fine, but when I try to boot with it, it |
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> stops and reports me that it found some conflicting area in my bios why it |
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> cannot work (sorry, I tell this from my memory, I've tried it quite some |
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> time ago). Mr. Google says that this may happen for some hardware, but has |
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> no solution to it. |
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> So, what are my options (or other people's options with such incompatible |
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> hardware) without grub 1? Lilo? |
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Just FYI, I'm using lilo successfully for years and never seen a reason |
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to install another operating system in my boot sector. However, lilo is |
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obviously less fool-proof, and you certainly want a simple filesystem |
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for /boot (like ext2). |
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Best regards, |
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Michał Górny |
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<http://dev.gentoo.org/~mgorny/> |
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