[Bug 154763] Grub is inadequate without Lilo for backup

[Mike Bird]

On Wed, 2005-04-20 at 09:38, Guy Fraser wrote:
> On Wed, 2005-20-04 at 07:11 -0500, Kyle Pointer wrote:
> > I'm wondering. What architecture did all this GRUB trouble start on?
> > And what sort of partition setup?
> > I've been using FC4test2 since the day it came out and I have not had a
> > single problem with either bootloader. They both worked fine for me. 
> > Just in case it has anything to do with partition table I'll post mine. 
> > 
> > ( 160G Western Digital IDE Hard Drive )
> > 98% ext3 /
> > 2% swap 
> > 
> > I have not had a single problem.
> > -- kyle
> With a single ATA Drive you won't.

Not true, Guy.  We have a non-MD test box just for laughs.  It's easy to
construct failure cases.  Just browse the source for a few minutes.

# df /BOOT
Filesystem           1K-blocks      Used Available Use% Mounted on
/its-a-long-way-to-tipperary/bootdev
                         97570     10926     81606  12% /BOO
# du /BOOT
12      /BOOT/lost+found
3       /BOOT/grub
181     /BOOT/boot/grub
182     /BOOT/boot
6812    /BOOT
# grub-install --root-directory=/BOOT /dev/hda
You must set the root directory by the option --root-directory, because
/BOOT/boot/grub does not exist in the root device Could not find device
for /BOOT/boot.
# lilo
Added 2.6.11-1.1226_F *
Added 2.6.11-1.14_FC3
#

--Mike Bird