From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 (2022-12-14) on finch.gentoo.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.1 required=5.0 tests=DMARC_NONE,MAILING_LIST_MULTI, NICE_REPLY_A autolearn=unavailable autolearn_force=no version=4.0.0 Received: from vsmtp.wi.securepipe.com (vsmtp.wi.securepipe.com [64.73.37.228]) by chiba.3jane.net (Postfix) with SMTP id C58C320ED2E3 for ; Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:15:03 -0600 (CST) Received: (qmail 20888 invoked from network); 8 Mar 2002 17:00:03 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO agamemnon.wi.securepipe.com) (64.73.37.245) by 0 with SMTP; 8 Mar 2002 17:00:02 -0000 Date: Fri, 8 Mar 2002 11:21:47 -0600 From: Jon Nelson To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Cc: erikg@wired-networks.net Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Point of fact. Message-Id: <20020308112147.1560dca4.jnelson@jamponi.net> In-Reply-To: <1015606277.2535.92.camel@maas.wired> References: <23DFAA462CC6A64487613B0E242D9FF706EBB4@mercury.phoenix-interactive.com> <1015606277.2535.92.camel@maas.wired> X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 0.7.3 (GTK+ 1.2.6; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org Errors-To: gentoo-dev-admin@gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.6 Precedence: bulk Reply-To: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Gentoo Linux developer list List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: X-Archives-Salt: 8c822956-60e5-4415-b3a1-0c47d187816f X-Archives-Hash: f5cc63b49d6408155d1c3f87f58dc661 On 08 Mar 2002 17:51:17 +0100 Erik Grinaker 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/ 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*. -- The Amazing* Jon Nelson C and Python Programmer, Code Gardener Just because it's not broken doesn't mean we can't take it apart. (* may not actually amaze)