RE: [gentoo-dev] Point of fact.

[Sean Mitchell <SMitchell@phoenix-interactive.com>]

>> 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?)

It's the second drive, master on my HPT370 controller. The first drive is
master on the chipset IDE controller. I have tried root (hd0,0), (hd1,0),
(hd3,0) and (hd4,0).

Contrary to what has been implied in other posts I have RTFM (I used to run
OpenBSD before Gentoo) and haven't had any success on my ABIT KT7. 

I have grub working quite nicely on my laptop and on my server. FWIW I also
have DJBDNS and Qmail running quite nicely on the server as well......

I'm not opposed to grub in any way, I simply have not had the same degree of
success with it as I have with lilo. And judging from the number of posts
here on the topic I am by no means alone in this.

The original poster to whom I replied seemed to question why anyone would
possibly want to run anything other than grub, so I was trying to help him
out.

Sean