On Sat, October 15, 2005 5:33 pm, Nick Rout said: > HMMM > > http://www.linux-magazine.com/issue/53/Xandros_Desktop_OS_30_Review.pdf > > <quote>After restarting to complete the install, > the system comes up with a GUI boot > screen where users can choose between > Xandros, any Windows installations they > may have, and other Linux distributions. > Xandros is one of only a few distributions > to use the Lilo bootloader rather > than Grub. > > Due to the different approaches that > Lilo and Grub have, only Lilo allows > users to run Udev to set up dynamic > device files for hard disks such as > /dev/hda1 when booting the system. In > contrast to Lilo, Grub needs the device > file to load the kernel as Grub cannot > find this file, Xandros will not boot with > Grub. This can cause issues, if you > attempt to specify Xandros as a boot > option within a pre-installed distribution > that uses Grub. </quote> > >
As a result I suggest installing lilo to the partition that xandros is on, and then chainloading lilo from grub. In this scheme grub starts as usual, and one of its options is xandros. Rather than loading Xandros' kernel, it starts the lilo on /dev/hda9. Rough guide: your grub in xandros is alrady set up to install in the xandros partition, so it will nopt affect grub. That is because of the line: boot /dev/hda9 (refer your email at 9.17 pm yesterday) so boot xandros and then, as root, run /sbin/lilo then boot back to debian (I think thats where you said grub was based) edit debians grub.conf file to include the following stanza: title Chainload Xandros Lilo rootnoverify (hd0,8) makeactive chainloader +1 That should get xandros' lilo going > > > On Sat, October 15, 2005 5:13 pm, Nick Rout said: > > [blah various grub stuff...] > >
