Alex Malinovich wrote:
On Wed, 2005-06-01 at 15:36 +0100, Graham Smith wrote:
Hi all,
I am running a testing machine that is currently using lilo for it's
boot loader. I would like to switch this to grub but I am a little
confused about how to go ahead and do this.
I have installed the grub package but it doesn't seem to have set itself
up as other packages do. There is not /boot/grub folder for instance and
it didn't tell me it was writing itself to the boot block. This leads me
to believe that if I reboot I will still be using lilo - I am a little
scared about rebooting to find though :o)
Can someone give me a couple of pointers about what to do next. I have
grabbed the grub-doc and while it's great there's so much of it that's
also half the problem.
There are some pretty easy to follow directions to be found
in /usr/share/doc/grub/README.Debian.gz
You'll need to run a few commands as root, double-check your menu.lst,
and you'll be all set to go. It's actually a lot easier than most people
expect.
Ok I have read the instructions but I am a little confused / concerned
about the section on initrd images larger that 4MB (4194304 bytes).
Almost all the stock initrd images are larger than 4MB
(initrd.img-2.6.8-2-386 is 4317184 bytes and is the one I want to use)
but the menu.lst files on my other machines (which all use grub already)
don't have a ramdisk_size=16384 option anywhere. Where would I put this
option anyway as the documentation is a little vague - I presume it
should be after kopt eg:
kopt=ramdisk_size=16384
but that looks wrong.
I have /boot as a separate partition on this machine so I have the
directory structure
/boot/boot/grub
which looks odd but seems to be right according to the instructions. Is
this structure needed because grub looks directly at the partition that
has /boot on it (/dev/hda1 in my case) and expects to see the /boot/grub
directory hierarchy?
The instructions also say that update-grub will create
/boot/boot/menu.lst in cases where /boot is a separate partition. I take
it this is just a typo and they meant /boot/boot/grub/menu.lst as that
is where the file was created.
Sorry to ask so many questions. I just really really don't want to screw
this up.
Huge Heaps of Thanks
Graham
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