On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 10:20, Chuck Mead wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 21 Dec 2001, Charles Galpin posted the following: > > CG>On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 08:07, John P Verel wrote: > CG>> While upgrading to 7.2, I first installed grub, had problems, changed > CG>> my mind and went back to lilo. I now have grum installed, but am not > CG>> using it. > CG>> > CG>> Is there any reason why I could not uninstall it? It is taking up some > CG>> good bit of space in my boot partition. > CG> > CG>rpm -e away. No harm can or will be done. I'm not too happy with grub at > CG>the moment myself (that and XP, but that's another story). > > I'm curious... what's the problem with grub?
well.where to begin. Ok, from the beginning. I had install w2k and RH7.2 on my new laptop. All worked well, including reistalling grub since I installed them linux, then w2k. BTW, this involved doing a bit of reading about how to setup booting other OSs, and identify partitons. So far so good. Seemed a bit overkill, but worked. I'm not sure why, but I'll blame my friend Tom (and the fact that in some sick way the Fisher Price look and feel attracted me) I considered installing windows XP on a spare partition I made by moving /home. Being adventurous and not entirely happy with w2k I decided to do it. Well, XP did it's thing and took control of the MBR. No prob, I booted off my boot floppy, ran grub-install and rebooted. Somehow XP booted instead of w2k when I chose the w2k menu (had not added XP choice yet). So, I rebooted and added a choice for XP. and tried to beef up my existing config with options like hid/unhide/makeactive. I tried to look for a tool that could verify my grub.conf before rebooting, but found none. I wasn't worried since I had the boot floppy. Well, when I rebooted, grub said it didn't like the partitions I was referencing. So on the grub command line I tried a few things - hiding and unhiding partitons etc. The grub shell is rather powerful and has tab completion etc. It was after mucking around in grub that I found i could no longer see my partitons!! I tried to boot of the floopy and got a kernel panic. I booted off the resuce CD, and fdisk revealed all my partitions were gone except for a little 32MB partition up front which dell puts on - it's partiton type had been changed. So, I'm not sure what went wrong, or who to blame, but I don't think grub helped. I like to think this would not have happened with lilo. Again, XP was involved and I'm very suspicious of it. Good thing it was a fresh install. :) charles _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
