Henrik Boom: > On Tue, Aug 16, 2016 at 10:05:12PM +0200, k...@aspodata.se wrote: ... > > Next scenario is if you have the bootloader on a different media, say > > e.g. a floppy. Then, will lilo load the kernel from disk 2 when disk 1 > > fails (assuming mirrored /boot) ? Do grub handle that ? > > I boot from a floppy. > boot=/dev/fd0
Yes, I remembered that, so I choose floopy as an example hooping to hear from your experience. > And for root I specify > > root = "UUID=9ce657a4-6b9b-4aa3-8d46-8977164db98a" > > SO if one hard drive of my RAID1 fails it still recogizes the other. Well, that is a kernel issue, not a bootloader one. The question are (I think): . if the usual boot disk gives read errors, should the bootloader try the "next" disk . should the bootloader in some way verify the kernel and try "next" entry/disk if invalid any more ? > I use the older protocol for marking RAIDs that puts the RAID > signature at the end of the partition instead of the start, so that > LILO doesn't have to know about it. I don't understand this. My understanding of lilo is that is just finds the blocks where the kernel is, and usually the kernel file is not placed in any superblock or signature; shouldn't the file system driver ensure that ? ... > Is there a way to tell lilo to boot from a hard disk with grub on it? > Is there a way to tell grub to boot from a lilo installation? Isn't that what the chainloader is for ? Like when dualbooting MS-Windows and Linux. Regards, /Karl Hammar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Aspö Data Lilla Aspö 148 S-742 94 Östhammar Sweden +46 173 140 57 _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
