Grub works a charm with LEAF - I've been using it with Bering for ages. I like it because it has decent security, good serial console support, and happily boots FreeDOS as well. I use DOS as a lifesaver when I've rendered a Bering system unbootable with a bung kernel or package - it takes about 1MByte of a compact flash - well worth it, IMHO.
I'm sorry, I don't have time to write a full howto, but I will write down what I do, in the hope that somebody else will flesh it out to sufficient quality that it can go into the LEAF docs. Warning, all this is typed from memory - it could all be lies :-). It's also not optimal - there ought to be a way to do this without the floppy disk, but I've never bothered to find out. Grub mini-mini-howto: 1) Get an IDE device of some sort. Grub in't worth it for floppies. Organise a machine that can boot from a floppy drive and from the IDE device. 2) create a Grub boot floppy, either by downloading the grub ext2 image ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-0.93-i386-pc.ext2fs and dd'ing it to floppy, or by following the instructions on http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub/html_mono/grub.html#Creating%20a%20GRUB%20boot%20floppy 3) get Bering working on your IDE device with syslinux and a FAT file system. 4) make /grub on the IDE device. Copy the stage1 and stage2 files into this directory. Make a menu.lst file, it should look something like this: -- #Useful extras: #serial --speed=9600 #terminal --timeout=2 serial console #password --md5 $1TH$8O$%w0$d&^20R4ff&^*a2K/oUm. root (hd0,0) timeout 5 default 0 # For booting Linux title LRP kernel /linux init=/linuxrc root=/dev/ram0 boot=/dev/hda1,msdos \ PKGPATH=/dev/hda1 initrd=initrd.lrp \ LRP=root,etc,log,local,modules,iptables,shorwall,dnscache,sshd,ssh # yes, you do seem to need the initrd.lrp line twice, once above, # and once here (I don't recall why :-( initrd /initrd.lrp # booting DOS title DOS #lock makeactive chainloader +1 -- All the options are documented in the grub docs - I won't rehash it. 5) boot the sysytem from the grub floppy. Run root (hd0,0) setup (hd0) 6) if you get a success message, pull the floppy out and reboot. With luck and a following wind, you'll get a grub menu, and after a few seconds LEAF will boot. Cheers Si On Fri, Jan 31, 2003 at 08:44:32AM +0100, Alex Rhomberg said: > > I think theres a doc on this linked from > > http://leaf.sourceforge.net/devel/thc > > I have a lilo.lrp that I can send anyone interested. > This is needed because lilo needs to run everytime you back up > the initrd.lrp package and whenever you change boot parameters > > For this reason, I'm planning to switch to grub as soon as I get around to > reading the docs, and I'm also planning to document it :-) > > Regards > Alex > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.NET email is sponsored by: > SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! > http://www.vasoftware.com > > _______________________________________________ > leaf-devel mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.NET email is sponsored by: SourceForge Enterprise Edition + IBM + LinuxWorld = Something 2 See! http://www.vasoftware.com _______________________________________________ leaf-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/leaf-devel
