lilo for fedora livecd 7.9.2 on a dell optiplex 320

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Mon Oct 15 01:02:21 UTC 2007


Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
> sam wrote:
>> hi...
>>
>> trying to install fedora livecd on a dell optiplex 320. after researching
>> via google, i'm now at a section where i'm dealing with lilo, as opposed to
>> grub. the arcticles i've seen have indicated that grub's lvm causes issues
>> when installing.
>>
> LVM is not part of Grub. Neither LILO of Grub understand LVM
> volumes, but the Kernel does. If you have /boot on a LVM volume, it
> can give you problems. This is not a problem if you give /boot its
> own partition, and do not make it part of an LVM volume, or do not
> use LVM at all.

grub supports filesystems it understands. If it doesn't understand Linux 
LVMs (as I think is the case) then it can't boot from one.

otoh LILO stores a list of blocks to use, and uses the BIOS to read 
those blocks. This means that it doesn't care about the filesystem at all.

It also means one has to run the lilo command whenever any of the 
kernel, initrd or menu changes, so it can rebuild the list of blocks.

Also, lilo has the ability to boot something else just once: if I want 
to close down Linux in the middle of the night, boot windows and do 
something then shutdown & reboot Linux, LILO makes it easy.




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John

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