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Autor: Didier Kryn
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Para: dng
Assunto: Re: [DNG] lilo development has ended
Le 20/01/2016 13:14, Simon Hobson a écrit :
> Didier Kryn <kryn@???> wrote:
>
>> I don't think Grub2 is all about pretty colours though. The veteran admin likes to have a bootloader which is easy to configure, but the random admin, likes to have a working multi-boot bootloader at the end of the installation.
> Indeed, and when ${random_admin} has a mix of md raid and lvm (and possibly other stuff as well), then either the bootloader has to support that - or ${random_admin} starts asking WTF? type questions.
>
> AIUI, if you use md and raid1, with metadata version 0.9, for /boot - then each member of the raid set contains a complete image of /boot which is safe to use read-only. So the bootloader doesn't need to understand md, and the rest can be taken care of in the initramfs/initrd (it's OK if said quickly and I slam the lid back down before the worms crawl out !)
> But try explaining the specific steps needed to achieve that to someone who is just "clicking the options" for an install.
>

     Dunno enough about metadata version, but, yes, I experimented this 
setup with md1 and it worked. If boot fails from the first disk, you can 
ask the BIOS to boot from the other one and it works. It worked for 
Grub-0.9 as well.


     Didier