On Sun, 13 Jun 2004 15:55:54 +0200
Johan Sch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi list,
I am a grub user.
Now I usually install grub in the HD mbr if over-written by another instal like
this..
# grub
grubgrub root (hd0,0)
grubsetup (hd0)
This time there was a error.
So I read the GRUB
On Tuesday 30 December 2003 19:52, Johan wrote:
Ok, here is mine as an attachment
Johan
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On Tuesday 30 December 2003 15:52, trufflesdad wrote:
Could someone using grub please post me the booting stanza..
I have been trying to boot Mandrake from the Fedora menu.lst
Ok, here is mine as an attachment
Johan
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On Tuesday 30 December 2003 15:52, trufflesdad wrote:
Could someone using grub please post me the booting stanza..
I have been trying to boot Mandrake from the Fedora menu.lst
but I must have an error as calling the mandrake
On Friday 26 December 2003 04:09, Russ wrote:
Thats my problem. I tried to edit it but didn't have any luck. I
guess I am asking for a how to on how to edit it.
Did you remember to /sbin/lilo after you edited?
Anne
--
Registered Linux User No.293302
Have you visited
Hi All,
I posted before but this is sort of an update. Still need help.
I am trying to get Grub to boot all the OS's I have installed. It appears to
be a tricky thing to accomplish.
Here is what I did:
New Dell 4600 (3ghz, 512ram, 80gig HD) with XP Home installed. I added a 160
gig HD and made
On Friday 26 December 2003 09:50 am, Russ wrote:
Hi All,
I posted before but this is sort of an update. Still need help.
I am trying to get Grub to boot all the OS's I have installed. It appears
to be a tricky thing to accomplish.
Here is what I did:
New Dell 4600 (3ghz, 512ram, 80gig
Did that, didn't work. :-(
Went through the install with Mandrake again so I could use it's boot
loader. Now Mandrake boots but no SuSE.
Although I do not understand all of what came up on the screen when I tried
to boot SuSE but, there were a couple of lines that I noticed.
It said something
Frank wrote:
I'm starting to learn more about grub. And on a Mandrake system that
means trouble for someone.
I've used both grub and lilo, and cannot find much to choose between
them, but mandrake tends to prefer lilo so I use that now days.
You see, I now have my primary disk exclusively
, 2003 9:33 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] grub lilo
I'm starting to learn more about grub. And on a Mandrake system that
means trouble for someone.
You see, I now have my primary disk exclusively Mandrake and though the
first partition is /boot I have yet to see Lilo ala GUI perform reliably
yet
On Tue, 28 Oct 2003 11:10:17 +
John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Frank wrote:
I'm starting to learn more about grub. And on a Mandrake system that
means trouble for someone.
I've used both grub and lilo, and cannot find much to choose between
them, but mandrake tends to
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 23:26:42 +
James Conner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've used both. There are pros and cons on both.
SNIPPAGE
I'm sure that there are more, but that's all I can think of off the
top of my head. I usually setup new users with lilo, it's easier to
understand and modify
For the differences:
Lilo uses the BIOS to access the partition where the image is residing.
It is file-system independent. This is accomplished at boot sector
installation time, by translating the location of the kernel image into
a list of disk sectors, which then LILO loads using the BIOS.
Sorry, I should have written
Grub incorporates a reduced version of a file system _driver_
raffaele
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For the differences:
Lilo uses the BIOS to access the partition where the image is residing.
It is file-system independent. This is accomplished at boot sector
On Mon, 27 Oct 2003 10:21:22 +0100
Raffaele Belardi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
For the differences:
Lilo uses the BIOS to access the partition where the image is
residing. It is file-system independent. This is accomplished at boot
sector installation time, by translating the location of the
I'm starting to learn more about grub. And on a Mandrake system that
means trouble for someone.
You see, I now have my primary disk exclusively Mandrake and though the
first partition is /boot I have yet to see Lilo ala GUI perform reliably
yet. The first screen always comes up OK but when
On Sunday 26 October 2003 03:33 pm, Heather/Femme wrote:
I've heard grub is experimental .. but RH uses it almost exclusively
and alot of ppl say its better than LILO. True? False?
I use GrUB. I wouldn't call it experimental. It works great.
I'd search google for a site detailing the
On Sun, 26 Oct 2003 20:08:16 -0500
Greg Meyer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
SNIPPAGE
For me the biggest is that if you make a config change, you don't have
to run lilo. Just make your change and reboot. The other thing I
like is that you can edit any boot stanza at runtime, meaning that if
I
On Sunday 26 October 2003 08:33 pm, Heather/Femme wrote:
I've heard grub is experimental .. but RH uses it almost exclusively
and alot of ppl say its better than LILO. True? False?
I'd search google for a site detailing the differences Pros/cons of
each but I don't kow where to start... I
[Original Message]
From: Ed Kasky [EMAIL PROTECTED]
In the readme that comes with Grub, it explains how to change the default
os -
Yours is set to 0 right now. To make windoze the default, change the
line
from:
default 0 - default 2
Ed
This did exactly what I wanted. Thanks a bunch, Ed
dunno if this has been answered, but the first option will be the default,
so copy the windows entry to be above the linux entries.
rgds
Frank
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan Jacobs
Sent: Saturday, 10 November 2001 12:00 AM
To:
Can't you just do it from the Mandrake Control Center?
Dan Jacobs wrote:
Can someone familiar with GRUB please tell me how to alter the MENU.LST
file to make windows the default OS? I cannot use linux for internet
access, so until then, I'd like to make windows the dedfault OS. Here is
In the readme that comes with Grub, it explains how to change the default os -
Yours is set to 0 right now. To make windoze the default, change the line
from:
default 0 - default 2
Ed
At 04:07 AM Saturday, 11/10/2001, you wrote -=
Can someone familiar with GRUB please tell me how to alter
unless you want to seriously f-up your file system don't use exit to dos,
rather use reboot to dos. exit to dos has been done to curropt file systems
so bad as to require fdisk and reinstall. just a thought.
On Monday 01 October 2001 10:18, you spoke unto me thusly:
I'm not sure this is
I'm not sure this is true, I have ME (God bless my soul) and I can, I think,
exit to DOS. Or am I thinking of something else?
-Original Message-
From: Hans N. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 15 September 2001 21:06
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] Grub problems
Just
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Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 4:18 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Grub problems
I'm not sure this is true, I have ME (God bless my soul) and I can,
I think,
exit to DOS. Or am I thinking of something else?
-Original Message-
From: Hans N. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 15
Lynch
Sent: Monday, 1 October 2001 10:19 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: [newbie] Grub problems
I'm not sure this is true, I have ME (God bless my soul) and I can, I think,
exit to DOS. Or am I thinking of something else?
-Original Message-
From: Hans N. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED
]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 4:54 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Grub problems
are you sure??
I was under the impression that ME had hidden dos and didn't allow
you to
use it, except as an emulation from the start button...
98SE will let you, but I know for a fact that 2000
Message -
From: Franki [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, October 01, 2001 4:54 PM
Subject: RE: [newbie] Grub problems
are you sure??
I was under the impression that ME had hidden dos and didn't allow
you to
use it, except as an emulation from the start button
Just a Windohz warning, people with Windohz ME can't exit to DOS.
Restarting in DOS mode is not an option.
Hans N.
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of d
What I am trying to say in all of this is I
did NOT use a WinBlow$ boot disk, did it
Boot with a win floppy and run fdisk /mbr
(as so often we hand out winders info...)
I installed a lnx4win Mandrake 8.0 on a pc, which
would load a text bootloader fine.
However, when I decided to uninstall, I deleted the
lnx4win folder (in windows) and rebooted.
Grub still starts and
yep, or if it's a win95 or win98 boot disk, it is on the A: drive.
Quoting Adrian Lynch [EMAIL PROTECTED]:
Adam, not two weeks ago I did exactly the same thing, and it was a weekend
so I had no way of finding out how to fix it. you might want to wait for
someone to confirm this answer, but
LURKER here, NOT a guru still trying to learn how to be a NEWBY. NOW for
this prob, just corrected a prob I had with my system. My system was
booting to LILO and I use the PowerQuest's BootMagic, I booted to LILO and
then typed in windows, then went into the BootMagic Configuration and set
Adam, not two weeks ago I did exactly the same thing, and it was a weekend
so I had no way of finding out how to fix it. you might want to wait for
someone to confirm this answer, but you use a Windoze Boot disk get into the
c drive ( dir c: and press enter) then fdisk /mbr this clears the Master
Is there any way of getting rid of Grub, so that the
machine boots straight into Windows?
Boot with a Windows floppy disk, the System boot disk that you can create
from Add/Remove Programs in the Control Panel is a good one to use. At the
command prompt type:
SYS C:
You must have a file
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
howdy. got a bit of a problem, .
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?)
It seems that I remember Civileme saying something
Sent: Saturday, 1 September 2001 11:03 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] GRUB stage 1, freeze
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
howdy. got a bit of a problem, .
i was using 7.2 and GRUB on this same box before -- only differences:
1. / was ext2 not reiser (but the reiser booted
On Saturday 30 June 2001 01:31, you wrote:
Well, I know it's not really missing but some how lilo has taken over as my
boot loader.
After some initial grumbling (all my other distros used lilo) I kept using
it and came to really like GRUB.
But I'm at a loss as how to set it as my boot
How do I stop you guys from sending me emails ?
I'm domain buyer and after buying the name all email
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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Stewart
Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 11:57 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] grub and Windows
Well, here's what I did. I unplugged my old disk from the
primary master,
plugged the new disk into primary master, had my friend
install
Well, here's what I did. I unplugged my old disk from the primary master,
plugged the new disk into primary master, had my friend install Windows98
(he moved fast and I'm not exactly sure how he structured things but I think
its all one big FAT32 partition), booted successfully, and obsessively
If you're talking about Windows 95/98/Me, I doubt it.
But I'm no expert.
NT/2000 should be able to do it, though.
Hmm. Yes, I am talking about installing Windows98. At least two other people
have replied that they had success but I don't think they specified which
versions of Windows they
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Mark Stewart
Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 10:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: [newbie] grub and Windows
If you're talking about Windows 95/98/Me, I doubt it.
But I'm no expert
On Tuesday 24 April 2001 22:32, Mark Stewart wrote:
Hi,
I've read fragments of info in various places that suggest that Grub will
allow me to boot Windows from a disk that is not in the master position of
my primary IDE channel.
Is this true?
I just added a second 15gb disk to my
Boot from your Linux boot disk, Login as root, goto /boot/grub/menu.lst and
do a ./install.sh
This will get things going.
Moose
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 12:37 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] GRUB
its not just grub.
it did this in lilo?
Well, have spent the entire day trying to chase down this problem.
5 minutes ago i installed lilo and the new kernel boots just fine.
oh well. Wasted days and wasted nights.
Thanks to those who responded.
Brian
On Sunday 01 April 2001 17:39, you wrote:
its not just grub.
it did this in lilo?
The lastest versions of LILO will be more than happy to boot beyond the 1024
barrier.
- Original Message -
From: "The Eclectic" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 20, 2001 12:05 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] grub
You probably have NTFS on your NT4 system
ot; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Saturday, March 17, 2001 9:46 AM
Subject: Re: [newbie] grub
Did you do a "fdisk /mbr" to clean to boot sector?
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, you wrote:
Hello,
Long story short...tried to dualboot LM 7.2 with NT4. Really
messed
up! No
robert macdonald wrote:
Hello,
Long story short...tried to dualboot LM 7.2 with NT4. Really messed
up! Now all I get is "grub" with a command prompt after it. Tried fdisk and
format to no avail. Just want to install LM 7.2 on clean hdd. Can any one
please give me some info? VERY
Charley Peggy Robinson wrote:
I've never run NT but in 95 /98/Me you make a startup disk when you do
the initial load. FDISK is on my startup disk and it can be run from
there. Also, you may have a boot disk that came with NT.
CR
Use the Windows 98 Boot Disk. Open the files on the
finally got it to work thanks to everyones help. Much appreciated can't say
enough thanks.
From: Mark Weaver [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] grub
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 22:10:51 -0500
use your Windows boot disk to start your computer
Philomena escribi:
Hi,
GRUB doesn't use lilo.conf, it uses a file called menu.lst in the
/boot/grub directory. You just need to edit that file, set your timeout .
You may need to run install.sh to install grub onto your MBR, if it isn't
there now.
It wasn't. I've also had to exec "chmod
Did you do a "fdisk /mbr" to clean to boot sector?
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, you wrote:
Hello,
Long story short...tried to dualboot LM 7.2 with NT4. Really messed
up! Now all I get is "grub" with a command prompt after it. Tried fdisk and
format to no avail. Just want to install LM 7.2
Yes I tried that But I get "Error: Unrecognized command"
From: Jean-Louis [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] grub
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 09:46:25 -0500
Did you do a "fdisk /mbr" to clean to boot sector?
On Sat, 17
I've never run NT but in 95 /98/Me you make a startup disk when you do
the initial load. FDISK is on my startup disk and it can be run from
there. Also, you may have a boot disk that came with NT.
CR
CR,
I have an NT boot disk that I made. I will try that. Thanks for
the help.
From: Charley Peggy Robinson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] grub
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 12:10:41 -0800
I've never run NT but in 95 /98/Me
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To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: [newbie] grub
Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 09:46:25 -0500
Did you do a "fdisk /mbr" to clean to boot sector?
On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, you wrote:
Hello,
Long story short...tried to dualboot LM 7.2 w
i'm only stabbing in the dark, but i'm guessing that you mean that you want
to boot the win2k bootloader that then offers you win2k or win9x, is win2k
like other versions of win and picky about being on the 'first' hard drive?
if so what about getting grub to map the hard drives from first and
Hi,
GRUB doesn't use lilo.conf, it uses a file called menu.lst in the
/boot/grub directory. You just need to edit that file, set your timeout .
You may need to run install.sh to install grub onto your MBR, if it isn't
there now.
cheers,
philomena
At 06:17 PM 3/9/2001 +0100, you wrote:
Tom, use your windows bootdisk and do a fdisk -mbr. Then reinstall Grub. It
sounds like something got hosed.
Moose
-Original Message-
From: Thomas Webster [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2001 1:41 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] Grub timeout!!!
How does this relate to the subject, 'GRUB'? Apparently, you have
Mandrake 7.2 running so the subject isn't 'GRUB'; it's "drive access
from a working LM7.2".
That aside, ---Most likely, with two hard drives, if you have Windows,
it's on hda1 and LM7.2 is on a second HD alhough it could just as
Aaron, I re-install Windows all the time. I currently boot
Win98/Win2000/LM7.1. What I do is make sure I have a current Linux boot disk
that WORKS. Then, after I do what I want with Windows I boot Linux with the
floppy, and as root issue /sbin/lilo. This will write LILO to the MBR and
you will be
i had to reinstall win-95 on my second hard drive and it wiped out my lilo
boot, so now i have to boot with a floppy.
From: Aaron Benedict [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie] GRUB Question
Date: Sun, 4 Mar 2001 11:02:42 -0500
I have to
- Original Message -
From: Carl Foley [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, March 04, 2001 3:10 PM
Subject: Re: [newbie] GRUB Question
i had to reinstall win-95 on my second hard drive and it wiped out my lilo
boot, so now i have to boot with a floppy.
From: Aaron Benedict
On Monday 19 February 2001 15:30, you wrote:
Hi, I want to know if exist some tool for configuring grub options, for
example how to include another operative system (win2k or win95).
thanks!!
-
Ing. Qco. Emilio Correa
On Monday 19 February 2001 16:30, you wrote:
Hi, I want to know if exist some tool for configuring grub
options, for example how to include another operative system
(win2k or win95). thanks!!
- Ing. Qco. Emilio Correa
Emilio Correa wrote:
Hi, I want to know if exist some tool for configuring grub options, for
example how to include another operative system (win2k or win95).
thanks!!
-
Ing. Qco. Emilio Correa
Invap S.E.
02944 422121
You don't have to switch anything around to have your windows partition as the
default. Just open up "DrakConf" and click on "Tools for booting". Choose "Configure
LILO/GRUB". Click on your windows partition and choose "Default". Click "Ok" and save.
You are now good to go.
Cheers,
-- Al
--
Well, if you want to do it the easy way...
-s
On Tuesday 06 February 2001 11:20 pm, you wrote:
You don't have to switch anything around to have your windows partition as
the default. Just open up "DrakConf" and click on "Tools for booting".
Choose "Configure LILO/GRUB". Click on your windows
Erik Salisbury wrote:
i asked this earlier, but i'm not sure i was clear. is there a way that i can
make it so windows is the first item listed in GRUB and thus the default OS to
load...i use windows more often and would like not to have to wait by my computer
everytime to turn it on, so i
David,
I am assuming that you tried to boot from you Linux boot disk...
When you do that, you will get a Lilo prompt. Just log into linux as root
and run "/boot/grub/./install.sh", No parenthesis. This will re-load Grub
and you will get passed stage1 the next time you logon.
Hope this helps,
Its just a text file - make sure you are root, and use whatever text editor
you prefer. Save the file and thats that - your changes will be in effect
when you boot.
cheers,
philomena
At 07:11 AM 1/12/2001 -0500, you wrote:
I know that this has been covered, because I remember seeing it. So,
Just become the root user (i.e., do "su", then enter your root password) and
open up /boot/grub/menu.lst in an editor -- at the command prompt enter "vi
/boot/grub/menu.lst" (replacing "vi" with the name of your favourite editor).
On Friday 12 January 2001 04:11, you wrote:
I know that this
D**n, you should have told him about vi!
-s
On Friday 12 January 2001 02:25 pm, you wrote:
I know that this has been covered, because I remember seeing it. So,
please forgive my ignorance.
How can I edit the Grub menu after it has been installed? I know that the
list resides in
Hi Kelly
Any of the text editors will do the job, so long as you're signed in as
root. If you pay attention to the order of the menu items during boot up
(just hit an arrow key to stop the count down if need) you'll find them in
the same order in the file which should give you an idea of the
Hey Alan,
Mephit appears that on this execution of lilo, lilo was
written to the MBR of hda. Have you tried rebooting since
running it?
Finally took the time (Well, time ~is~ limited during the week,
after all) to reboot. I'm still getting grub. I don't get it at
all.
Is just
At 02:17 PM 1/1/01 -0800, Meph Istopheles wrote:
Hey,
I'd mentioned this before, but I'm not sure anyone noticed;-).
For a few reasons, I want to boot with lilo instead of grub.
Civileme had told me what the grub faq confirms that all I had to
do was run /sbin/lilo (as one would do in
Irwan,
At 02:17 PM 1/1/01 -0800, Meph Istopheles wrote:
Hey,
I'd mentioned this before, but I'm not sure anyone noticed;-).
For a few reasons, I want to boot with lilo instead of grub.
Civileme had told me what the grub faq confirms that all I had to
do was run /sbin/lilo (as
Meph Istopheles wrote:
Hey Alan,
Mephadd a ' -v' to your command line entry and see
what's causing lilo to not overwrite grub.
Here's the results (don't see anything that looks
particularly wrong, though):
# /sbin/lilo -v
LILO version 21.5, Copyright (C) 1992-1998 Werner
On Sun, 10 Dec 2000, Joe Lore wrote:
I recently installed Mandrake 7.2 and have a few questions about the boot
loader, grub.
How do I get Windows to be my default OS in the list.
Count from 0 up in /boot/grub/menu/lst, for each "title" you find, and
change the "default" into that: e.g.
ah, i see grasshopper.
my computer is at least 2 years old i would say -- maybe closer to 3. i didn't know
there was any BIOS related stuff. that will probably explain it then.
thanks much
Adrian Smith
'de telepone dude
Telecom Dept.
x 7042
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Cody Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Use Linuxconf , and from there its somewhere under default boot options
hope that helps
Monster
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Reg. User 153258
- Original Message -
From: "Mike Tetlow" [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 03 December 2000 17:58
Subject: [newbie] Grub Editing
Mike wrote:
Does anyone know of a way or location of a tutorial so I can make
grub set
my windows partition as the one it boots after 5 seconds of no response
I did this just yesterday in Mandrake 7.2. Open DrakConf from the desktop,
and there should be an icon for boot options, which will
LILO forever...grub sounds like a fat, gooie worm that squirmed out from
under a log to be breakfast for a Robin.
--
Mark
/ * Sometimes it becomes necessary to rock the boat
* in order to get the rats up from below decks
* so they can be kicked over the side and drowned!
*
*
On Thu, 30 November 2000, Mark Weaver wrote:
LILO forever...grub sounds like a fat, gooie worm that squirmed out from
under a log to be breakfast for a Robin.
--
Mark
Mark - Resistance is futile, you WILL be assimilated
Barry :-))
I am presently running another distro than mdk, so I'm not
familiar with grub. Why would one want to use grub instead
of the usual LILO, especially now that LILO can load anywhere?
--doug
At 19:07 11/24/2000 +0100, Paul wrote:
On Fri, 24 Nov 2000, Kelly, Christopher wrote:
Ok, here today's
I prefer grub for a few small reasons - you can make changes on the fly and
try them out without having to remember to run lilo to effect your changes,
and to make the changes permanent you simply edit the menu file- again, as
soon as you save your changes, thats it - nothing else to execute.
According to something I saw on the l-m site, GRUB is now the default
bootloader for Linux-Mandrake 7.2, but LILO is optional in an Expert
install.
- jim
On 11/24/00 12:03 PM, philomena spoke the words:
I prefer grub for a few small reasons - you can make changes on the fly and
Anyone with windows installed on the front partitions that are migrating
over to mandrake will probably appreciate grup as it overcomes the 1024
cylinder limitation of lilo. A few weeks ago I went to onstall SuSE over
my mandrake partitions. Since it uses lilo and my boot partition was
outside
On Friday 24 November 2000 21:16, you wrote:
Anyone with windows installed on the front partitions that are
migrating over to mandrake will probably appreciate grup as it
overcomes the 1024 cylinder limitation of lilo. A few weeks ago I
went to onstall SuSE over my mandrake partitions. Since
Tigereye,
I'd like to know some of those answers too... as far as booting into single
user mode don't you just put "linux single" at the prompt?
Lewis.
-Original Message-
From: TiGereYe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: 15 November 2000 17:06
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [newbie]
Yes, the new version of Lilo can handle placing the system files beyond the
1024 cylinder mark...but...
If you partition your linux installation to include 16MB or so /boot
partition below the 1024 cylinder mark, you do not have to worry about this
at all.
If all you are installing on this HD
On Wed, 25 Oct 2000, you wrote:
How can I edit the Grub menu selections? I have some that I want to get rid
of.
Thanks,
Chris Kelly
Registered Linux user 185775
Under /boot/grub/ there is a menu called menu.1st. That's the one that
shows the grub menu at start up. You probably have to
Hi Chris,
I think the file is boot/grub/menu.lst
philomena
"Kelly, Christopher" wrote:
How can I edit the Grub menu selections? I have some that I want to get rid
of.
Thanks,
Chris Kelly
Registered Linux user 185775
The latest versions of LILO have a workaround for the 1024 cylinder problem.
Just put 'lba32' (without the quotes) in your /etc/lilo.conf in the main
section (before the images are declared). Then run lilo to write to your boot
sector.
Also, the newer versions have a graphical interface not
Hi Tom. Thanks for replying. Okay. I've got it setup like this:
WD-10 megger - hda with /swap, /, /usr, and /home as partitions.
added: an old Seagate 1 gig HD, as hdd1.
My Zip drive is indeed, hdc4...
So whats the easiest way to change the old Seagate (hdd1) to hda,
and my WD (hda) to
You need to clarify: Are you runnin Windoze on hda1, Linux in a
partition on hda, or a 'second' drive (hdb), and then DOS on that
'added' (3rd?, hdd) harddrive? (your zip drive being hdc)
I'd guess from what you wrote, that the added DOS drive isn't
bootable, not because it's a
Tom Brinkman wrote:
You need to clarify: Are you runnin Windoze on hda1, Linux in a
partition on hda, or a 'second' drive (hdb), and then DOS on that
'added' (3rd?, hdd) harddrive? (your zip drive being hdc)
I'd guess from what you wrote, that the added DOS drive isn't
bootable,
Michael wrote:
I'm running a dual boot system, Win 98SE, and Mandrake 7.1 with grub as
my boot loader. Now I need to reinstall windows, and I know that it will
overwrite the MBR which will kill grub. What do I need to do to be able
to reinstall grub afterwords?
Mike
Mikeafter the
Alan Shoemaker wrote:
Michael wrote:
I'm running a dual boot system, Win 98SE, and Mandrake 7.1 with grub as
my boot loader. Now I need to reinstall windows, and I know that it will
overwrite the MBR which will kill grub. What do I need to do to be able
to reinstall grub afterwords?
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