FC4t2 no good without LILO

[Guy Fraser]

On Wed, 2005-13-04 at 11:01 +0200, shrek-m at gmx.de wrote:
> Res wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 12 Apr 2005, Chuck R. Anderson wrote:
> >
> >> On Tue, Apr 12, 2005 at 05:06:51PM -0600, Guy Fraser wrote:
> >>
> >>> The biggest problem I have with it, is the error reporting is
> >>> awful and you don't get any clue to what caused the problem.
> >>
> >> As opposed to LILO's error reporting consisting of "LI" during bootup?
> >
> > Its suprising how many ppl have NFI that halting at various points in 
> > print statemant of LILO  actually has a useful meaning telling them 
> > where the problem is.
> 
> 
> L error
>   physical hd error ?
> LI
>   some lilo parts are not found -> bootdisk, check lilo.conf, lilo, reboot ?
> LIL
>   lilo-map error ?
> LIL?
>   wrong boot device ?
> LIL-
>   wrong geometry ?
> LILO
>   ok

That is overly terse.

> 
> 
> my lilo experiences <= rhl7.2,  playing russian roulette
> my grub experiences since >= rhl7.3 absolutely no problems
> 
> 
> FYI
> --------
> $ info grub
> -> troubleshooting
> 14 Error messages reported by GRUB
> **********************************
> 
> This chapter describes error messages reported by GRUB when you
> encounter trouble. *Note Invoking the grub shell::, if your problem is
> specific to the grub shell.
> 
> * Menu:
> 
> * Stage1 errors::               Errors reported by the Stage 1
> * Stage1.5 errors::             Errors reported by the Stage 1.5
> * Stage2 errors::               Errors reported by the Stage 2
> ----/----
Except that all the errors are just numbers with a generic meaning 
and point to no specific device file or routine that is having a 
problem.