New install boot problem

[Dennis Veatch]

On Saturday 09 January 2010 5:22:56 am Dave Brown wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 08, 2010 at 12:42:29AM -0700, Richard B. Pyne wrote:
> >  On 1/7/2010 11:28 PM, Dave Brown wrote:
> > > (Workaround: boot up a CD in rescue mode, running udev, then do this:
> > >      mount /dev/sda2 /mnt    # change to whatever your real root
> > >      filesystem
> > > 
> > > is
> > > 
> > >      cd /dev
> > >      tar cvf - . | ( cd /mnt/dev; tar xvf - )
> > >      mount /mnt
> >  
> >  This got me past the "unable to open console" problem so that I can use
> >  the CD to boot with the "root=/dev/sda3", but it still tells me that
> >  there is no bootable media unless I have the CD in.
> >  
> >  I have tried "lilo -M /dev/sda mbr" "lilo -b /dev/sda" both of which
> >  tell me that the MBR has been updated,
> 
> My somewhat amazed question is this: why are you attempting to use lilo?
> Lunar's been using grub as its standard boot loader for years now.
> 
> Heck, yesterday I installed grub 2 on my work machine and set up not
> only the root filesystem, but /boot itself as RAID-backed LVM volumes.
> 
> --Dave
> _______________________________________________

Some people do prefer lilo. I do not, but for now it is the only choice I have 
for x86_64. Yes I know grub2 is supposed to deal with that but haven't gotten 
around to fiddling with it. 

Apparently grub2 has made some development progress; are you going to be our 
designated grub-guru? :)

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