On Monday 18 August 2003 19:35, Amit Upadhyay wrote:
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, suhas prabhu wrote:
~ But when the system boots it does show the Knoppix entry but does
not boot
~ from it. I booted from a Knoppix bootable and did LILO Config. But
due to
~ that the GRUB was wiped out.
Looks like pretty standard problem, I recommend using Lilo and
ditching
Grub, as lilo gives meaningful error messages if there is some
problem in
lilo.conf, where as grub will only crib at the boot time, by the
time your
Once u install grub and can boot successfully, adding options only involves editing /boot/grub/menu.lst. No need to re-install and screw your mbr like lilo does. Further I found that using lilo caused windoze to crash much more. Changing to grub reduced crashes substantially. I am clueless about this behaviour though. Also u get a shell in grub in case u want to boot into some other partition.
Here is my menu.lst # grub.conf generated by anaconda # # Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file # NOTICE: You do not have a /boot partition. This means that # all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /, eg. # root (hd0,3) # kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda4 # initrd /boot/initrd-version.img root (hd0,4) boot=/dev/hda default=0 timeout=10 #splashimage=(hd0,4)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz title Debian (reiser) root (hd0,4) kernel /vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda5 append="hdd=ide-scsi" #initrd /boot/initrd
title windoz root (hd0,1) # hide (hd0,4) rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1
title LTSP root (hd0,8) kernel /vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda9 initrd /boot/initrd
rgds