lilo vs grub

[Alan Cox]

> > Uhh.. is this really a problem?  If you re-add a disk after a failure, I'd 
> > suppose the user would be intelligent enough to change the boot sequence 
> > in the bios to actually skip hda :-).
> 
> Which may then change the disk numbering, or may not, depending on the
> BIOS.
> 

It can do that but its unusual that it does. The IDE layer looks for the
primary and secondary controllers in very defined ways. SCSI is another
matter.