Re: [ANNOUNCE] Red Hat Linux 9 XFS DVD Released

[Stefan Smietanowski <stesmi@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Martin Spott wrote:
> "Kai Leibrandt" <k_leibrandt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
> > > There is a bug with using GRUB as a bootloader. Either use 
> > > LILO or use one of the following workarounds:
> [...]
>
> > Or what you can do to fix grub is:
> >
> > 1) install, ignoring the grub bug
> > 2) reboot into rescue mode from the DVD
> > 3) mount your root partition _only_
> > 4) chroot to that directory
>
> Oh, I already got used to work around (exactly the way you mention here)
> what you call a 'bug' - I thought it was a 'feature'  ;-)
>
> Martin.
The reason "my" variant is longer is that I have one machine where a
shorter version using grub-install doesn't work but where using the
same line as used in the installer works fine.

So to get less problems in the long run I described my longer
workaround.

// Stefan