I have had a number of problems with using grub2 (running Debian Squeeze) and am thinking of switching to LILO. I'd like to achieve these objectives:
1. use a boot manager (BootitNG) in the MBR which will set up the required partition table and pass control to LILO located in the root partition of the OS to be run. 2. image the root partition to a file, then restore the image to a different location on the hard drive in order to clone the system. When I used grub-legacy to do this I didn't have to change anything for it to boot ok but grub2 won't do this (hence my reason for trying LILO). Also I'd like to avoid using UUIDs - I think this will be necessary if I am to achieve 2 above. Any comments on the feasibility of the above, or other issues would be most welcome. I have found a guide here, which I intend to use, but I thought I'd ask the above general questions first: http://users.wowway.com/~zlinuxman/lilo.htm -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/BANLkTi=sfs3hoeovatkbiznoq4tc297...@mail.gmail.com
