Perfect, thank you. That was everything I needed to know.
Things seem to be up and running for now.
My gratitude...
7 dayw without a computer... it was hell
Adrian
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skippi wrote:
Howdy. I am trying to install 9.1 on a brand new MoBo. It's a Intel D865GBF.
Info is here: http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/bf/
The install process seems to go just fine, until the very end. When I reboot,
I get my Win98 start up menu. GRUB is not installing. On top of that, I
Howdy. I am trying to install 9.1 on a brand new MoBo. It's a Intel D865GBF.
Info is here: http://www.intel.com/design/motherbd/bf/
The install process seems to go just fine, until the very end. When I reboot,
I get my Win98 start up menu. GRUB is not installing. On top of that, I made 3
floppie
Felix Miata wrote:
Rolf Pedersen wrote:
Felix Miata wrote:
How do I get grub back?
FWIW, /dev/hda has 22 partitions. IIRC, it had 19 when I last installed
9.1 on it. It has 255hd, 63s, cyl, & units = 16065 * 512 on a PIIX4
00:07.1 controller. A NEC ehci USB 2.0 PCI host was added since
Greg Meyer wrote:
> On Tuesday 23 September 2003 04:33 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
> > Is grub installed w/o problem (rpm -V grub)?
> > If it is and you did not re-partition for the re-install, there should
> > be /boot/grub/install.sh and you could try:
> > sh /boot/grub/install.sh
> If your pa
Rolf Pedersen wrote:
> Felix Miata wrote:
> > How do I get grub back?
> > FWIW, /dev/hda has 22 partitions. IIRC, it had 19 when I last installed
> > 9.1 on it. It has 255hd, 63s, cyl, & units = 16065 * 512 on a PIIX4
> > 00:07.1 controller. A NEC ehci USB 2.0 PCI host was added since last
On Tuesday 23 September 2003 04:33 am, Rolf Pedersen wrote:
> > FWIW, /dev/hda has 22 partitions. IIRC, it had 19 when I last installed
> > 9.1 on it. It has 255hd, 63s, cyl, & units = 16065 * 512 on a PIIX4
> > 00:07.1 controller. A NEC ehci USB 2.0 PCI host was added since last
> > install.
>
Felix Miata wrote:
For reasons I won't get into, I had to reinstall 9.1 today. Ever since I
first discovered it more than two years ago, I've used grub exclusively
as my boot loader. During this install, as on the same machine about three
months ago, I specified grub during installation. During l
For reasons I won't get into, I had to reinstall 9.1 today. Ever since I
first discovered it more than two years ago, I've used grub exclusively
as my boot loader. During this install, as on the same machine about three
months ago, I specified grub during installation. During late installation,
the
lto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Gerard Perreault
Sent: Monday, 10 September 2001 8:37 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] GRUB will not install
Try this:
grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --batch < when i try to install GRUB from the GRUB prompt it wil
Try this:
grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map --batch < when i try to install GRUB from the GRUB prompt it will not install.
>
> i do
>
> root (hd0,0)
>
> and it's good
> then
>
> find /boot/grub/stage1
>
> and it's good
> but then when i try
>
> setup (hd0)
> or
> setup (hd0,0)
>
> i get
>
>
when i try to install GRUB from the GRUB prompt it will not install.
i do
root (hd0,0)
and it's good
then
find /boot/grub/stage1
and it's good
but then when i try
setup (hd0)
or
setup (hd0,0)
i get
file not found
any suggestions?
Adrian
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> i was using 7.2 and GRUB on this same box before -- only differences:
> 1. / was ext2 not reiser (but the reiser booted fine at first, could that be
> the problem?)
Have you got reiserfs support compiled into your kernel? If not, this is
likely the problem.
> 2. my ide cdrom, hdc, seems to
howdy. got a bit of a problem, hope someone can help me out.
i'm using 7.2, the install was getting a bit large as i keep experimenting
and breaking things, so i decided to reinstall.
i formated / and did a fresh install. changed to ReiserFS for / -- i am
currently using Reiser for all my oth
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
>
> Felix Miata wrote:
> > I'm coming up empty looking for docs to explain vga= syntax
> > and a table of possible video modes. Can't find it in info
> > grub. Can't find it in mini howto. Nothing other than
> > vga=normal or vga=ask is working right on a Trident 9680. I
> >
Felix Miata wrote:
> I'm coming up empty looking for docs to explain vga= syntax
> and a table of possible video modes. Can't find it in info
> grub. Can't find it in mini howto. Nothing other than
> vga=normal or vga=ask is working right on a Trident 9680. I
> want to use the native Trident 132 X
I'm coming up empty looking for docs to explain vga= syntax and a table
of possible video modes. Can't find it in info grub. Can't find it in
mini howto. Nothing other than vga=normal or vga=ask is working right on
a Trident 9680. I want to use the native Trident 132 X 30 mode then
booting to sing
So sprach Ozz am Sun, Jul 08, 2001 at 03:31:47PM -0400:
> kernel for 2.4.3 - no initrd.img. Will it hurt to use the 2.2.17
> initrd.img when I boot the 2.4.3 kernel?
Yep, it will. Use mkinitrd
Alexander Skwar
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On Sunday 08 July 2001 14:47, Hoyt wrote:
>
> Edit /boor/grub/menu.lst and add a new stanza for the kernel you want to
> boot.
I finally found it - for some reason, /boot is NOT the true boot partition
here. I manually mounted /dev/hda5 as /mnt/boot, and there, finally, was
menu.lst.
Here is
On Sunday 08 July 2001 02:11 pm, Ozz methodically organized electrons to
state:
> Hi Guys.
>
> How do I add another kernel boot option to grub?
Edit /boor/grub/menu.lst and add a new stanza for the kernel you want to boot.
Hoyt
So sprach Jason am Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 03:57:01PM -0700:
> Thanks!
>
> But how do I get Linux to boot once I delete the MBR??? (on the other
> machine i have)
On the Windows machine, where you did fdisk /mbr? You might try loadlin, or
you might go the easy way, and use a boot loader like GRUB
On Friday 15 June 2001 06:57 pm, you methodically organized electrons to
state:
> Thanks!
>
> But how do I get Linux to boot once I delete the MBR??? (on the other
> machine i have)
>
>
That would be where you would use your boot floppy.
You know, the one you should have made.
Hoyt
nux?), but on the WINDOWS system, my
linux is NOT accessible anymore. How do I get rid of it and allow windows
to boot normally???
Thanks!!!
Jason
> -Original Message-
> From: Alexander Skwar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, June 15, 2001 2:41 PM
> To: Jason
> Cc:
So sprach Jason am Fri, Jun 15, 2001 at 02:29:45PM -0700:
> How do I modify the default (top listed) operating system in GRUB?
It's all in /boot/grub
>
> Or better yet, how can I get rid of GRUB in favor of better boot loaders?
You can't - GRUB is the best.
> If I were to use another boot lo
How do I modify the default (top listed) operating system in GRUB?
Or better yet, how can I get rid of GRUB in favor of better boot loaders?
If I were to use another boot loader/manager instead of GRUB, what command
or program do I have to pass control to on the Linux partition to get it to
cont
I had a lot of trouble getting GRUB and/or LILO to boot my machine.
Finally created a /boot partition on hda, now I can boot Linux without a
floppy -BUT- only Linux. Windows hangs after autoexec.bat runs. I should
mention that Windows was working fine before I installed GRUB. The /boot
partition (
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Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 6:40 AM
Subject: RE: [expert] grub: how to specify booting from CDrom?
> Once the BIOS has released the system to the OS, in this case Grub,
> you can not bypass or override the boot paramiters set by the BIOS.
Correct me if I a
> Once the BIOS has released the system to the OS, in this case Grub,
> you can not bypass or override the boot paramiters set by the BIOS.
Correct me if I am wrong, but I thought that booting from the viewpoint
of the BIOS consists in reading the Master Boot Record. In my case
the Master Boot
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rusty Carruth
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 2:05 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: RE[2]: [expert] grub: how to specify booting from CDrom?
>
>
> "Char
"Charles A Edwards" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>
> > -Original Message-
> >
> > I am using grub as boot loader. Rather than turning loading from a
>
> Once the BIOS has released the system to the OS, in this case Grub,
> you can not bypass or override the boot paramiters set by the
> -Original Message-
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Peter Mxller
> Neergaard
> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 5:55 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [expert] grub: how to specify booting from CDrom?
>
>
>
I am using grub as boot loader. Rather than turning loading from a
bootable CD rom on and off in the BIOS, I would prefer just adding an
option on my boot menu. I tried various settings in my
/boot/grub/menu.lst without success. So if it is possible I would
appreciate if somebody could point m
Hi Lorne,
on the grub menu, the install puts a "maintenance mode". Select that
and enter your root password. Comes up to a commandline prompt.
BillK
lorne schachter wrote:
>
> Yesterday,, my system crashed and trashed one of my file systems. fsck
> couldn't clean it
> automaticly and I coul
Yesterday,, my system crashed and trashed one of my file systems. fsck
couldn't clean it
automaticly and I couldn't figure out how to tell grub to do an "init s"
on the system. I
eventually went back to an old boot disk with LILO and everything was
fine. How can
I do that with grub?
Thanx for the help
Tommi
- Original Message -
From: "Tom Brinkman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, January 17, 2001 8:50 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] grub
> On Wednesday 17 January 2001 01:12 am, Tommi wrote:
> > I dont know ho
On Wednesday 17 January 2001 01:12 am, Tommi wrote:
> I dont know how to upgrade my bootloader with grub
Look here :
http://www.mandrakeuser.org/install/iboot2.html
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I dont know how to upgrade my bootloader with
grub
Hi all
i have LM 7.2 and Grub 4 my bootloader
Grub.
And now i have downloaded a new kernel, but
i
dont know how to uppdate the bootsector to the new
kernel
with grub
ssage -
From: "Daniel Velzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 11:49 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Grub Be Gone
> Tim:
> First delete Grub: in DOS mode type fdisk /mbr
> Second: install RedHat, perhaps Lilo don´t run after instal
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 5:48
PM
Subject: [expert] Grub Be Gone
I'm trying out Linuxes (Linuxi?) I've fooled with
Mandrake and now I'm going to try Redhat (don't hurt me), BUT when I installed
Redhat, it seems that half of grub was still there. I was thi
lt;[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 12:22 AM
Subject: Re: [expert] Grub Be Gone
> I'll probably use LILO when it comes to it, but i still can't even get it
> installed at the moment. When I tried to install LILO with the Redhat, my
> computer wouldn'
On Wednesday 06 December 2000 00:48, you wrote:
> > I'm trying out Linuxes (Linuxi?) I've fooled with Mandrake and now I'm
> going to try Redhat (don't hurt me), BUT when I installed Redhat, it seems
> that half of grub was still there. I was thinking that I could just leave
> grub in there and
e why you want to do such a thing, though), run
/sbin/lilo on GNU/Linux.
-Original Message-
From: civileme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 6:18 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [expert] Grub Be Gone
On Wednesday 06 December 2000 00:48, you wrote:
&g
On Wednesday 06 December 2000 00:48, you wrote:
> > I'm trying out Linuxes (Linuxi?) I've fooled with Mandrake and now I'm
> going to try Redhat (don't hurt me), BUT when I installed Redhat, it seems
> that half of grub was still there. I was thinking that I could just leave
> grub in there and
to get rid of Grub first and
I'm not sure how to do that. Does anyone know? Do I need to delete grub
files as well? Where do they reside?
Tim
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To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, December 05, 2000 7:51 PM
Subject: Re: [expe
Message-
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Behalf Of S. Anderson
Sent: Wednesday, December 06, 2000 4:07 AM
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Subject: Re: [expert] Grub Be Gone
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 05:48:50PM -0600, Tim Faehnle wrote:
> I'm trying out Linuxes (Linuxi?) I'v
On Tue, Dec 05, 2000 at 05:48:50PM -0600, Tim Faehnle wrote:
> I'm trying out Linuxes (Linuxi?) I've fooled with Mandrake and now I'm going to try
>Redhat (don't hurt me), BUT when I installed Redhat, it seems that half of grub was
>still there. I was thinking that I could just leave grub in th
> Which brings me to my simple question:
> How do I uninstall Grub?
>
> Not so simple question:
> I like grub better than LILO, can I keep Grub, but use redhat? I know, I
> know, this is the Mandrake list.
>
> Any help would be appreciated. Thanks very much
> Tim
Use a Win95/98 boot disk and i
I'm trying out Linuxes (Linuxi?) I've fooled with
Mandrake and now I'm going to try Redhat (don't hurt me), BUT when I installed
Redhat, it seems that half of grub was still there. I was thinking that I
could just leave grub in there and use it to get to redhat, but that didn't
work. In th
drakboot keeps the two config files in sync, so it's best to use it
unless you need to add options that don't work with drakboot yet (the
password/restricted options seem to have a bug).
Buchan
Svante Signell wrote:
>
> My question is more oriented how lilo and grub work together (or don't).
>
Hi!
Does anyone have some ideas (good) how to configure, I would say quite
typical system, so linux lives on the first physical hd and win-system
on the second one.
I installed LM7.2 out of the box and I got ready made grub config,
fine. Everything is working BUT I have two partitions on my seco
My question is more oriented how lilo and grub work together (or don't).
Last time I tried lilo was in 7.1, where the lilo.conf file
was edited and updated (I thought) by a lilo run. But what happened was
not as expected, lilo did not upgrade according to the conf file. On
the other hand, at the
Unless you told it to uninstall lilo why wouldn't it be installed? Linux
is usually better about actually waiting for you to tell it what you want
before it does it. Also a lot of times programs leave modified config
files when uninstalled so if you need them later you have them. I still
run LILO
> Is it sufficient to edit /etc/lilo.conf and the changes are directly
> reflected in the boot menu? What about /boot/grub/menu.xxx
> It seems that lilo is non-functional. Why is it still installed?
With grub you just edit the list. With lilo you run lilo after you
make the lilo.conf changes.
Is it sufficient to edit /etc/lilo.conf and the changes are directly
reflected in the boot menu? What about /boot/grub/menu.xxx
It seems that lilo is non-functional. Why is it still installed?
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Hello,
> How du i install grub as bootmanager (i have just installet wintendo and
> lost it) - running "grub-install /dev/hda" doesent seam to work.
cd /boot/grub
chmod +x install.sh
./install
That did the trick for me ;) (LM 7.2 or 7.1)
Good luck
>
> ___
> Mvh./Yours sincerely
>
> Lars
>
Run "install" found in /boot/grub
philomena
On Tuesday 28 November 2000 12:39 am, you wrote:
> > How du i install grub as bootmanager (i have just installet wintendo and
> lost it) - running "grub-install /dev/hda" doesent seam to work.
>
> ___
> Mvh./Yours sincerely
>
> Lars
>
> ==
How du i install grub as bootmanager (i have just installet wintendo and
lost it) - running "grub-install /dev/hda" doesent seam to work.
___
Mvh./Yours sincerely
Lars
Lars Roland Kristiansen | Email:[
In a message dated 10/15/2000 3:14:59 PM Central Daylight Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> Hell all, I need some assistance.. I removed win98 and installed
> win2000.
>
> I had been using PowerQuests boot magic to boot win/linux/beos but it
> will not work in win2000.
>
> So I tried to move
Hell all, I need some assistance.. I removed win98 and installed
win2000.
I had been using PowerQuests boot magic to boot win/linux/beos but it
will not work in win2000.
So I tried to move grub from hdb1 ( where it was ) to mbr.. This works
but will not boot win2000..
I get:
booting 'windows'
On Sat, Aug 26, 2000 at 07:19:35AM +0800, BillK wrote:
> Hi,
> when I installed the latest kernel rpm's, I ran lilo which works fine
> but overwrote the grub bootloader - how do I get back to using grub to
> boot?
as root:
sh /boot/grub/install.sh
Alexander Skwar
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On Fri, Aug 25, 2000 at 05:43:01PM -0700, Alan Shoemaker wrote:
> BillK wrote:
[...]
> Billyou'll need run the script /boot/grub/install.sh to
> reinstall GRUB. Before you can do this you will need to edit
> the text file /boot/grub/install.sh and add this new first
> line to it:
>
> #!/b
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
Thankx
>
> BillK wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> > when I installed the latest kernel rpm's, I ran lilo which works fine
> > but overwrote the grub bootloader - how do I get back to using grub to
> > boot?
> >
> > BillK
>
> Billyou'll need run the script /boot/grub/insta
BillK wrote:
>
> Hi,
> when I installed the latest kernel rpm's, I ran lilo which works fine
> but overwrote the grub bootloader - how do I get back to using grub to
> boot?
>
> BillK
Billyou'll need run the script /boot/grub/install.sh to
reinstall GRUB. Before you can do this you
Hi,
when I installed the latest kernel rpm's, I ran lilo which works fine
but overwrote the grub bootloader - how do I get back to using grub to
boot?
BillK
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] pushed some small plastic letters in this
order:
> Hello,
>
> I just changed my main HD drive and had to play a bit with drakboot to get it to
> work again after copying everything on the new disk.
> Now everything is fine but grub disappeared and I'm back
On Wed, 02 Aug 2000, you wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I just changed my main HD drive and had to play a bit with drakboot to get it to
> work again after copying everything on the new disk.
> Now everything is fine but grub disappeared and I'm back with lilo ?
> Is there any way to use grub again (withou
Hello,
I just changed my main HD drive and had to play a bit with drakboot to get it to
work again after copying everything on the new disk.
Now everything is fine but grub disappeared and I'm back with lilo ?
Is there any way to use grub again (without reinstalling everything of course ?)
This
Hi,
I previously had grub 0.5.94 from debian/woody installed which detected all
128 megs of ram correctly and the OS all 128 too. Now after installing the
mandrake 7.1 grub, both debian and mandrake only claim there is 64 megs
available. I assume it was grub since that was the only thing that c
Grub is a boot loadermuch like lilo...
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Original Message <<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
On 6/16/00, 3:06:45 AM, Daryl Pawluk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote regarding
Re:
"Michael H. Collins" wrote:
> Who or what is a grub? As I watch it being installed..
>
> --
> Michael H. Collins http://www.linuxlink.com
> Admiral of OpenSourcery Penguinista Navy
> All Things French.. Mandrake and XFCE
> Fun with
umm they eat LILO's?!? sorry couldn't resist. As I understand it's a
replacement for LILO new from MD. Haven't had much of a chance to run it
through it's paces but so far so good.
At 11:52 AM 6/15/00, you wrote:
> Who or what is a grub? As I watch it being installed..
>
>
>--
>Mic
Who or what is a grub? As I watch it being installed..
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Dave Lers wrote:
>
> What is the equivalent of append="hdb=noprobe" when using Grub?
According to my grub docs you can add boot parameters to the
/boot/grub/menu.lst just by entering the parameter itself without the
append equals. For example to boot with the aha152x module, edit the
menu.lst a
What is the equivalent of append="hdb=noprobe" when using Grub?
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