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From: Ray Olszewski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: David Aikema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: August 5, 2000 5:21:21 AM GMT
Subject: Re: Caldera Openlinux/GRUB
Well .. I've used the Debian grub package and found it pretty easy to
install. Don't have it running at the moment, so I can only write from
memory ... after installing the package, basically you copy a few files to
/boot/grub, set up a simple config file, and run an installer (like you run
lilo). Then at boottime you get a menu of available kernels for a 30-second
countdown. Worked fine for me. But I don't know the details of how other
distributions package grub (or even which ones do).
But it might be worth your while to take a moment to tell us about your
1024-cylinder problem. It might be fixable, permitting you to stay with
lilo. The usual solution is to create a small (20-50 megs) partition as the
HD's *first* partition, then mount it as /boot . This forces the stuff in
/boot, all the kernels and related stuff, to be within the first 1024 cylinders.
Heard a lot about this.... but I haven't got a copy of partition magic (one comes with
openlinux but is limited to splitting partitions) to move my partitions. So far I've
run across several alternate programs but all the reviews I've heard have been bad.
I don't want to have to wipe the partition table (too much data on the drive and I
haven't got a good place to backup to). I can pick up a copy of Openlinux for a whole
lot cheaper the full partition magic so I figured I might as well give the alternate
bootloader a shot.
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