<br><br><div><span class="gmail_quote">On 6/1/06, <b class="gmail_sendername">Rick Stevens</b> <<a href="mailto:rstevens@vitalstream.com">rstevens@vitalstream.com</a>> wrote:</span><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 13:40 -0500, Matthew Benjamin wrote:<br>><br>><br>> On 6/1/06, Clint Olson <<a href="mailto:colson@sharplabs.com">colson@sharplabs.com</a>> wrote:<br>> Rick Stevens wrote:<br>
> > On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 09:45 -0500, Matthew Benjamin wrote:<br>> ><br>> >> Can someone tell me how to change your boot loader from<br>> GRUB to LILO?<br>> >>
<br>> ><br>> > Good lord, why? Grub is FAR more capable than LILO<br>> It's also a bit more complex to configure than Lilo. I know<br>> that I<br>> personally prefer Lilo, where you can simply and easily edit
<br>> its single<br>> configuration file by hand, using the familiar /dev/hda1<br>> syntax to<br>> denote partitions. I've never run into anything Lilo can't<br>> handle, so
<br>> why work with complexity if you don't have to?<br>><br>> *shrugs* Ah well. I can see this guy's point, but I also know<br>> that<br>> there are no Lilo packages for FC5, hence removing Lilo's
<br>> simplicity<br>> advantage.<br>><br>> Clint Olson<br>><br>> -<br>><br>> grub wouldn't be so bad but I can't get pass the stupid grub><br>> prompt to boot up.
<br>><br>> i have done the<br>> install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,0)/grub/stage1 (hd0) \<br>> (hd0,0)/grub/stage2 p (hd0,0)/grub/grub.conf<br>><br>> to no avail... augghhhhh!!!<br><br>There's two ways to do it. 1) Boot off the rescue CD in single user
<br>mode, then:<br><br> # chroot /mnt/sysimage/boot<br> # grub-install /dev/hda<br> # exit (leaves the chroot environment)<br> # exit (exits the rescue boot)<br><br>2) Use grub, but the easier sequence is:
<br><br> grub> root (hd0,0)<br> grub> setup (hd0)<br><br>That assumes that the the stage1 loader is in /boot/grub and that /boot<br>is NOT a separate partition. If you're not sure, use the sequence:<br>
<br> grub> find /boot/grub/stage1<br> grub> root (whatever-the-find-command-displays)<br> grub> setup (hd0)<br><br><br>----------------------------------------------------------------------<br>
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Ok I did try what you said and it work perfectly. Thanks and I will try to read the instructions better from now on.<br>mB.