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I upgraded from Mageia 1 to Mageia 2 on a system with linux software raid. This system was used to boot with lilo but now lilo seems to fail because of the size of initrd. Is there any possibility to switch to grub? None of the "solutions" in thread https://forums.mageia.org/en/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2487&hilit=lilo worked for me.

I just realized that "dracut -f" creates an "initrd-3.3.6-desktop-2.mga2.img" instead of an "initrd-3.3.6-server-2.mga2.img". The string desktop does not appear anywhere else in /boot. Where does dracut get this information from? There are only "*kernel-server*" packages installed. Nothing like "*kernel-desktop*".

magfan wrote:I upgraded from Mageia 1 to Mageia 2 on a system with linux software raid. This system was used to boot with lilo but now lilo seems to fail because of the size of initrd. Is there any possibility to switch to grub? .

Yes, when you do an upgrade with the Mga2 DVD or Wired Network-based Installation CD.

choose to upgrade your Mageia 2 in this screen http://doc.mageia.org/content/selectInstallClass.html
choose "bootloader" in the summary step after installation, so here: http://doc.mageia.org/content/misc-params.html
then choose grub instead of lilo.

HTH

Cheers,
marja

I tried it but I am offered only to select one of the defined partitions. It is not possible to select a boot manager.

magfan wrote:I tried it but I am offered only to select one of the defined partitions. It is not possible to select a boot manager.

The boot manager kicks in after grub so get grub working first.

Ken-Bergen wrote:

magfan wrote:I tried it but I am offered only to select one of the defined partitions. It is not possible to select a boot manager.

The boot manager kicks in after grub so get grub working first.

How to get grub working if I cannot boot?

magfan wrote:

Ken-Bergen wrote:

magfan wrote:I tried it but I am offered only to select one of the defined partitions. It is not possible to select a boot manager.

The boot manager kicks in after grub so get grub working first.

How to get grub working if I cannot boot?

Are selecting the root of the drive?
For example /dev/sda should work /dev/sda1 will not.

I selected /dev/sda

magfan wrote:I tried it but I am offered only to select one of the defined partitions. It is not possible to select a boot manager.

You mean the screen you get is different than the one shown here http://doc.mageia.org/content/setupBootloaderBeginner.html and where it says "Bootloader to use" you can't change Lilo into Grub by using the drop down menu?

In that case it works different during upgrade than I thought

Could you please upload a screenshot of that screen?