-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 21 Dec 2001, Charles Galpin posted the following: CG>On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 10:20, Chuck Mead wrote: CG>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- CG>> Hash: SHA1 CG>> CG>> On 21 Dec 2001, Charles Galpin posted the following: CG>> CG>> CG>On Fri, 2001-12-21 at 08:07, John P Verel wrote: CG>> CG>> While upgrading to 7.2, I first installed grub, had problems, changed CG>> CG>> my mind and went back to lilo. I now have grum installed, but am not CG>> CG>> using it. CG>> CG>> CG>> CG>> Is there any reason why I could not uninstall it? It is taking up some CG>> CG>> good bit of space in my boot partition. CG>> CG> CG>> CG>rpm -e away. No harm can or will be done. I'm not too happy with grub at CG>> CG>the moment myself (that and XP, but that's another story). CG>> CG>> I'm curious... what's the problem with grub? CG> CG>well.where to begin. Ok, from the beginning. CG> CG>I had install w2k and RH7.2 on my new laptop. All worked well, including CG>reistalling grub since I installed them linux, then w2k. CG> CG>BTW, this involved doing a bit of reading about how to setup booting CG>other OSs, and identify partitons. So far so good. Seemed a bit CG>overkill, but worked. CG> CG>I'm not sure why, but I'll blame my friend Tom (and the fact that in CG>some sick way the Fisher Price look and feel attracted me) I considered CG>installing windows XP on a spare partition I made by moving /home. Being CG>adventurous and not entirely happy with w2k I decided to do it. CG> CG>Well, XP did it's thing and took control of the MBR. No prob, I booted CG>off my boot floppy, ran grub-install and rebooted. CG> CG>Somehow XP booted instead of w2k when I chose the w2k menu (had not CG>added XP choice yet). CG> CG>So, I rebooted and added a choice for XP. and tried to beef up my CG>existing config with options like hid/unhide/makeactive. CG> CG>I tried to look for a tool that could verify my grub.conf before CG>rebooting, but found none. I wasn't worried since I had the boot floppy. CG> CG>Well, when I rebooted, grub said it didn't like the partitions I was CG>referencing. So on the grub command line I tried a few things - hiding CG>and unhiding partitons etc. The grub shell is rather powerful and has CG>tab completion etc. It was after mucking around in grub that I found i CG>could no longer see my partitons!! CG> CG>I tried to boot of the floopy and got a kernel panic. I booted off the CG>resuce CD, and fdisk revealed all my partitions were gone except for a CG>little 32MB partition up front which dell puts on - it's partiton type CG>had been changed. CG> CG>So, I'm not sure what went wrong, or who to blame, but I don't think CG>grub helped. I like to think this would not have happened with lilo. CG> CG>Again, XP was involved and I'm very suspicious of it. CG> CG>Good thing it was a fresh install. :)
Well... I've been using grub for about a year and a half and have not ever had a problem like that. I also don't think that grub could have b0rked your partitions. IMHO your attempt to install XP was wrong-headed in the first place (have you completely taken leave of your senses?) and I have a deep suspicion that you got what you deserved for mucking around with it. :-) - -- csm Free Dmitry! Boycott Adobe! Repeal the DMCA! Stop the SSSCA! -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjwjW1YACgkQv6Gjsf2pQ0rxzACffwvfEdL/2JKyptL9UYQkNokH luEAn3dDLJ6JKtIlr2sTAmzfWfz0fZDp =dgKH -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
