[ale] GRUB issue on boot

[esoteric at 3times25.net (Geoffrey)]

James Sumners wrote:
> Install lilo. I don't know why distributions are moving to Grub. I
> have never seen an installation of it that doesn't screw up at some
> point. I recently added a kernel switch to the Grub config on my SuSE
> 10.0 box and it caused my machine to reboot every time Grub started to
> load. I reinstalled Grub several times and the same thing kept
> happening. Surprise, surprise, I installed lilo, with a basic config,
> and I could boot my machine again.

I have to disagree.  My Slack boxes still use lilo and it's a nice tool, 
but I think grub has far surpassed it as a boot loader.  With 
interactive editing and all, you really can't beat it.

I've got at least 9 boxes running with grub and all kinds of bizarre 
configurations, never a problem.


As far as the original problem, I'd boot from a rescue disk or Tom's 
r/b, chroot to the installed base and check out the grub configuration.

-- 
Until later, Geoffrey

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