If someone has the time and patience with a relative newcomer to GRUB. I was recommended GRUB through irc.debian as I have some problems with my booting procedure, and someone said it was highly preferable to LOADLIN, so I downloaded and have been through the GRUB-DOC quite a few times without being able to come to a rational GO/NO GO decision.
A smidgin of history will explain things I hope.
Started with a Knoppix trial CD version, as I had left Linux at about Suse V6, being unable to get a decent working configuration for my TEAC Toaster piloted by a Tekram SCSI Card.
The Knoppix looked better, and there was a hard disk install available.
Still no support for the Tekram SCSI card and hence, no toasting :(
I was advised to recompile to include the correct modules, ( plus some newer ones for my USB Dial-Up modem ).
Unfortunately, the Knoppix HD install doesn't include the sources, so off to kernel-source.org for the latest stable 2.4.20, recompile then..
Message = vmlinuz too big for a boot-floppy.
Now I have the following setup, from which you'll see why I do not particularly use LILO and mess with the MBR.
HD1 IDE partition 1 W_98SE
partition 2 programs
partition 3 data
HD2 IDE partition 1 MS-DOS ( mainly MP3 downloads, and HD1 backup images via Norton Ghost )
partition 2 (way down the back of a 60Go dirve ) Knoppix root.
partition 3 Linux /swap
The BZImage created by the new compilation weighs 1.1Mo, so should go on a floppy, but I've been at it for a week now with no success. The drive whirrs a few times when I try to write the boot-floppy with a simple shell dd command, ( or other procedures ) but when I try to boot with it I get 'Ran out of data - system halted' message.
As I said, LOADLIN could be an alternative proposition for choosing whether to boot W_98 or Knoppix, but maybe you can convince me that GRUB would be more efficient & elegant.
I don't fancy messing with windows/system and batch files if I can avoid it, and that looks imperative under LOADLIN.
My root partiton is hdc2 My W_98 partition is hda1
Thanking you in advance. ( I really do need my hand held through this )
Lance.
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