Re: [gentoo-dev] Point of fact.

[Jon Nelson]

On 08 Mar 2002 17:51:17 +0100
Erik Grinaker <erikg@××××××××××××××.net> wrote:

> On Fri, 2002-03-08 at 16:55, Sean Mitchell wrote:
>
> > Well, the rest of that whole post aside, many of us have had trouble with
> > grub because we have no separate /boot partition. In my case, my /boot
> > partition is on /dev/hde1, which grub just can't seem to find.
> >
> > I like grub, but I've had much more success with lilo.

I find this interesting, because grub in situations *without* a
separate /boot partition is super-easy! I've never run it in
any other way.  In the menu.lst, just have everything refer
to /boot/<kernel> and so on, (because that is where it *is*),
and use
root (hd0,0)
(actually, for you, (hd4,0), right?)

I haven't used lilo for a couple of years now, and i've been exclusively
grub.  Grub has let me down *once* in all that time, and that was because
I was an idjit and "upgraded" the files and re-ran grub to install the
new code.  It was a problem with the Debian package at the time and it
horked all over the floor (very messy -- needed a mop,...)
I fixed it with my grub boot floppy, which I made off of my gentoo box.
Yay!  Problem solved. With LILO, it was always one thing or another.
I had a boot disk *handy*.

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The Amazing* Jon Nelson <jnelson@××××××××××.com>
C and Python Programmer, Code Gardener
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