lilo vs grub

[Jesse Keating]

On Monday 20 October 2003 08:07, Chris Ricker uttered:
> This is because grub can't be installed to /dev/md?. LILO, in contrast,
> can.
>
> You can work around it by manually installing GRUB to both components in
> the mirror, but that's lame....

Not really, because I'm sure thats what LILO is doing in it's code.  Since the 
device /dev/md0 doesn't exist until after the kernel creates it, there is no 
way that lilo can know about it's physical location.  I'm pretty sure that 
lilo just has code to detect a mirror, and then just installs itself on each 
part of the mirror.  Last time I checked, Linux software raid didn't mirror 
the boot sector.

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