On Sun, May 27, 2001 at 08:11:07PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | | Hi, | | > I didn't have much luck with lilo on my system either, but grub has | > worked beautifully for me. Its configuration is really simple, though | > you will have to edit the /boot/grub/menu.lst file yourself. | | The (or A, or The Main) problem is that it -seems- there is still a chunk | of LILO, or something that refers to it, on my system somewhere -- because
Yes, it is on the MBR ;-). | even after removing the lilo pkg, running dpkg --purge on it, and installing | grub, I still get a vertical line of This is the down side of grub, for the time being -- there is no "install" program that sets up the MBR. There is documentation with the package that tells how to install the stage1 portion on the MBR using the 'dd' program. Alternatively (the method I used and my recommendation) is to get the binary from the grub web site (www.gnu.org/software/grub). They have a floppy image that you can download and dump to a disk. Then shove the disk in your computer and start to boot! There is a sample menu.lst configuration on the floppy and one of the entries is for linux. Move the cursor down to that entry then type 'e' to edit the entry. You can interactively adjust the hard drive partition specification to match your setup, then run that series of steps to boot. (You still need to edit the menu.lst on disk if you want to see the changes next time you boot) You will want to make sure you have the stage2 loader and a menu.lst file in /boot/grub (also make sure the stage2 is from that same version of grub as the stage1 -- the binary on the website is a little newer than the package in potato). Grub also has a command line mode when you boot up which includes on-line help for the various commands. One of the commands is called 'setup'. Use the setup command to install the stage1 on the MBR of your disk. If you have any more questions, just ask :-). HTH, -D
