Is it possible (or desirable) to similarly load GRUB instead of LILO? Willem van der Walt wrote:
> I would suggest you go into rescue mode and try to get lilo installed on > the boot sector from there. > regards, Willem > > On Thu, 7 Feb 2002, Steve Cohen wrote: > > >>Aargh! I am in upgrade hell. >>I tried to upgrade a system that was running 7.0 to 7.2. It is a dual >>boot system with Win 98 running in the other partition. The hard drive >>was partitioned originally using Partition Magic. >> >>OK. I started the upgrade and I didn't think it through clearly enough. >> When it asked me what kind of loader I wanted to use, I thought I >>should just continue using Partition Magic, so I selected "do not >>install a boot loader". I followed the advice and upgraded to an ext3 >>file system. I chose all my upgrade packages and the system upgraded >>itself. Smoothly, it looked like. I made a floppy and was done. >> >>Of course, it didn't work. Partition Magic didn't know doodly squat >>about my new ext3 file system and hung when I tried to boot it. Win 98 >>still worked. Ah I thought, I would boot off the floppy. But that >>failed, said it failed to boot, so was useless. >> >>So I got rid of Partition Magic. Uninstalled both it and its companion, >>Boot Magic. I thought I would go back into the upgrade and try the new >>GRUB loader. So I rebooted to the CDROM once again, went through the >>upgrade rigamarole, added a couple of packages, but when it was all >>done, it said I hadn't changed the kernel, therefore it wouldn't write >>the boot image to disk!! Even though I'd changed the loader. Tried >>GRUB, LILO, no matter what I did after this point, it would not write >>the boot image. I even went in and installed the debug kernel thinking >>it would see this as a kernel change and write the boot image out. Nope. >> >>So I'm stuck here with what is probably a perfectly good Linux partition >>that cannot load because the installer refuses to write the boot image, >>and cannot generate a good boot floppy! (Oh yeah, I tried writing it >>out again to another floppy with the same results). >> >>This is REALLY annoying. Is there something I can do in the upgrade >>process to FORCE it to write the boot image? >> >> >> >>_______________________________________________ >>Redhat-list mailing list >>[EMAIL PROTECTED] >>https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list >> >> > > > > _______________________________________________ > Redhat-list mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list > > _______________________________________________ Redhat-list mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
