[CentOS] Boot disk order: h/w vs. grub

Mon Oct 6 16:31:02 UTC 2008
MHR <mhullrich at gmail.com>

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 7:47 AM, Akemi Yagi <amyagi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I had a situation similar to yours.  When I had a mix of PATA and
> SATA, I just could not boot the thing.  Played with the BIOS settings,
> grub entries such as hd(0,0), etc etc.  I finally gave up on it and
> went for lilo which had no issue booting the same system.  I'd be
> happy to go back to grub if I could get it to work.
>

Thanks.  Maybe I'll just go back to booting from hd0 - that was
working fine before.  /boot et al still live on /dev/sda, I was
actually (originally) just trying to CMA, but it looks like there's a
hole in that cover, too.  (Hahaha!)

I remember when I was working with LILO In 1998-9, and I didn't really
care for it then.  Grub has, IMNSHO, a nicer interface, but it isn't
quite as robust (obviously).  I'll have to go back and look at LILO
again - maybe.

Ciao!

mhr