Ahh... yea.. that is different. Tell me this... I set up beta 3 and
selected Grub. seemed nice except Norton Anti Virus no longer works. I
blamed Grub, and removed it. I put lilo in it's place. Made no
difference. ? I'm not sure what is wrong. In any event.. lilo only sees
64 megs of ram and I have 170. I don't recall the exact syntax to add
the memory statement to lilo.conf, and thought maybe I should just put
Grub. How would I go about adding Grub back? with lilo it is just lilo
at the bash prompt. Looks like Grub wants some command line additions.
"Guy T. Rice" wrote:
>
> On Sun, 28 May 2000, Lorne Shantz wrote:
> > Yup. It is very very very important to create a rescue disk!! That way
> > if you mess up the partition and it no longer sees grub or LILO.... you
> > can boot with it, type lilo at the bash prompt and you are done. That
> > easy. Without the disk you have to go to a lot of trouble and know what
> > you are doing to get back into it.
>
> If you're refering to those floppy rescue disks Mandrake offers to create
> during install, it's useless for solving the problem I was using as an
> example. If the system is bootable using that rescue floppy, it's because
> it was configured for your system. My problem was, once I plopped a new
> PCI card in my company's webserver, it moved the address of the ide2
> interface, which happens to be where the hard drive is, and Linux isn't
> bootable on that machine unless the proper "ide2=<some address>" is
> specified. Since both LILO and the rescue disk were configured for the
> old address, neither was the slightest bit useful in bringing the system
> back. I also tried tomsrtbt and it gave me some errors probably related
> to the fact that tomsrtbt uses a crusty old kernel and libc. I ended up
> creating a GRUB floppy. Now that I have it, I can boot any system with
> it, no matter what happens to the MBR, the hardware addresses, or whatever.
> I highly recommend keeping a GRUB floppy handy and learning the GRUB
> command line if you're the kind of person who it in the position of having
> to rescue downed computers from time to time. It's a very useful tool.
>
> And, as Guillaume mentioned, it's got nice pretty menus. :) After the
> aforementioned incident, I replaced LILO with GRUB on all my company's
> computers, and people like it better this way.
