My LiveUSB doesn't like Lilo!

[PcPrisoner]

Its the initrd.gz file. If I comment it out, lilo will boot to a point, then kernel-panic (of course). As well as boot memtest. If I don't comment it out, It gives me a '?', but no error message, and fails. Grub works fine.

I've googled elsewhere initrd images can be too large; they often are a couple MB but are now over 10MB gzipped on LCDs/LUSBs

the boot images must be on the first 500MB of disk (I have a 1 GB KDE_0.sqfs, so maybe I copied a modified initrd past the 500MB point?)

And SCSI support must be either in the kernel or load early in the initrd.

I like lilo because it does 640x480 16bit VGA (unlike crude Grub 10bit color), and I understand it. I must grub four hours in confusion though, when trying to fathom what's mounted where, if its persistent, et.

Comments, Lilo fans?

[Neal ManBear]

PCLinuxOS LiveUSB Creator was scripted to use grub.

[Was_Just19]

Comments, Lilo fans?

I doubt there are left using PCLOS .....

Your problems are due to some limitation in LILO  it seems ...... and if so then maybe the heading should be

"Re: LILO doesn't like my LiveUSB"

 

[PcPrisoner]

Comments, Lilo fans?

I doubt there are left using PCLOS .....

Your problems are due to some limitation in LILO  it seems ...... and if so then maybe the heading should be

"Re: LILO doesn't like my LiveUSB"

 

Yea, I guess so. 
Thanks (all).

[Bald Brick]

Comments, Lilo fans?

I doubt there are left using PCLOS .....

I'm a Lilo fan. I regret switching to Grub. Daily.

[Was_Just19]

Comments, Lilo fans?

I doubt there are left using PCLOS .....

I'm a Lilo fan. I regret switching to Grub. Daily.

You could always go back to it .....

[Old-Polack]

Comments, Lilo fans?

I doubt there are left using PCLOS .....

I'm a Lilo fan. I regret switching to Grub. Daily.

I ditched lilo the day I found out there was a grub, and have never missed lilo one bit. 

[PcPrisoner]

I hate "grubing" around with grub, trying various combinations to get it right. I suspect I had such problems because grub was not really replacing the map, but just puting it on the volitile loop-mounted volume. It is nice in that you can make boot a grub stick, and then setup a disk. And it has usefull, stand-alone commands.

But it has low-quality 10-bit color. It is like a little, independent grub on your system, not a utility like lilo that just is used to setup the mbr and map file. It really confused me at first, since they are designed on different paradigms; Grub is an independent little dos, but lilo is a configuration utility.

And there's the aesthetics; grub sounds so little, down and dirty. Lilo, like a beautiful willow, or lily. What would you rather have, a dirty little grub or a beautiful willow or lily? 

[Was_Just19]

Give me a grub anytime in preference to a lily .....  much more nutritious!