John Jason Jordan wrote: > My guess is that Grub 2 did install, but incompletely. Grub 1.5 failed > because it detected Grub 2.0 already installed. I installed LILO to > sda1, not sda, think that doing so would make it easier to install Grub > later. But LILO doesn't start if there is something in the MBR. That is > just my WAG.
I believe the PC BIOS looks at the MBR of the first disk, not the first partition on the first disk. So you needed to install LILO or GRUB to /dev/sda, not /dev/sda1. Someone will correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the only time you should install a bootloader onto a partition is if you're already using a bootloader on the MBR that you want to preserve and that presumably will be told about the bootloader on your partition(s). Scott -- Scott Garman sgarman at zenlinux dot com _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
