frank wrote:
> oddly, most of the responses on this thread deal with lilo rather than grub,
> which is a clearly superior bootloader...to find out more about grub, type:
>
> info grub
>
> while at a command prompt (either in console mode or in a terminal emulator)
>
> if you've not got the manual on your machine, it's available online at:
>
> http://www.mcc.ac.uk/grub/grub_toc.html
>
> the grub manual appears to have been written by someone who not only knew
> grub well, but knew how to effectively write a manual...it's excellent...
>
> briefly:
>
> 1. be in root
> 2. cd to /boot/grub (where the grub files are located)
> 3. (optional but advised) install grub first on a floppy:
> dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
> dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek1
> 4. after floppy trial-run, be in /boot/grub and type:
> grub (this puts you in the grub shell)
> 5. at grub prompt type:
> setup (hd0) to set in mbr
> or:
> setup (hdX,X) where X denotes hd and partition
>
> but be aware that grub uses a different and more coherent numbering system
> for hd and partitions than is generally used...in short, rtfm...
>
> frank
> -------------------
>
>
Thanks Frank, I set up Grub then tried it out, at first I was having boot
errors but I quickly edited the menu.lst file in /boot/grub to fix it!! While
reading the Grub info page I saw that grub can boot BZIMAGE files. Can LILO do
that as well? I could have avoided this whole mess by simply pointing LILO or
Grub to the Primary FAT32 partition which has the BZIMAGE that I use with
LINLOAD!
Anyway, now that this works I'd like to now any possible boot time arguments
that would increase the performance of my machine. Currently I boot linux
using:
linux root=/dev/hda6 ro mem=131072k auto vga=4 hda=autotune hdc=autotune
hdd=ide-scsi
Are there any boot time parameters that would allow me to load the Linux kernel
into a RAMdisk for uptimum performance?
