Andrew Benton wrote: > TheOldFellow wrote: > >> I'm having some problems with grub (and others) on my old i586. It's a >> Fujitsu ErgoPro with a Pentium MMX 200Mhz. >> >> Has anyone any ideas? >> > > Well the first thought that sprang to mind was to buy a new hard drive. > But would a new drive work with an old machine? Hard drives are useful > things so it wouldn't go to waste I'm sure. > The second thought was, have you tried Lilo? I prefer Grub, its never > let me down, but if you must, try Lilo. >
Good ideas, thanks. I had a read of the Lilo docs - which lead to some thoughts: I have a spare drive, I thought maybe that I might install it and use the extra space to repartition the old drive to create a small partition with just /boot on it. I think if all the grub 'bits' are in the first 1024 cylinders then grub will probably work. Both grub and Lilo use the bios to load their second level bootstrap and the kernel. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
