On Tue, 02 May 2000, Stefan Srdic put to word:
> I have installed Linux Mandrake 7.1 a while back. I have been using a boot
> floppy and LINLOAD to boot into Linux whenever I'm not playing games in
> Windows :-D
>
> Anyway, I want to install Grub on the MBR so that I can choose at boot up
> which OS to load. I cant use LILO because of the location of the root
> filesystem, its above the 1024th cylinder.
>
> I tried using DrakBoot with no success, I know that I have Grub installed
> on my system. How do I configure and install it?
oddly, most of the responses on this thread deal with lilo rather than grub,
which is a clearly superior bootloader...to find out more about grub, type:
info grub
while at a command prompt (either in console mode or in a terminal emulator)
if you've not got the manual on your machine, it's available online at:
http://www.mcc.ac.uk/grub/grub_toc.html
the grub manual appears to have been written by someone who not only knew
grub well, but knew how to effectively write a manual...it's excellent...
briefly:
1. be in root
2. cd to /boot/grub (where the grub files are located)
3. (optional but advised) install grub first on a floppy:
dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek1
4. after floppy trial-run, be in /boot/grub and type:
grub (this puts you in the grub shell)
5. at grub prompt type:
setup (hd0) to set in mbr
or:
setup (hdX,X) where X denotes hd and partition
but be aware that grub uses a different and more coherent numbering system
for hd and partitions than is generally used...in short, rtfm...
frank
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