Hello Friends,
I am new to the group and xcited about it. I am a newbie to Linux using it since last Five Months. I have problem at hand. I have installed Knoppix 3.2 and RH 9.0 on a single HDD. Knoppix uses LILO and RH uses GRUB by default as the bootloader. I installed Knoppix first on /dev/hda1 with LILO in the MBR. After that while installing RH on /dev/hda3 the Knoppix OS was not detected as the second OS. So I added a Entry called Knoppix and partition as /dev/hda1.
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.
I want to know how I can install GRUB with Knoppix as a OS option on the same drive. Or I will have to boot Knoppix from a bootable floppy everytime.
Can anyone help?
Suhas
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Why don't you choose LILO as the bootloader during RH installation? It does allow you to choose.
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 system may have been rendered non-bootable. Anyways, either read Lilo howto-s or paste your menu.conf from /boot/grub and lilo.conf from /etc and hope someone to suggest a lilo.conf for you.
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
On Mon, 18 Aug 2003, suhas prabhu spake thusly:
Hello Friends,
I am new to the group and xcited about it. I am a newbie to Linux using it since last Five Months. I have problem at hand. I have installed Knoppix 3.2 and RH 9.0 on a single HDD. Knoppix uses LILO and RH uses GRUB by default as the bootloader. I installed Knoppix first on /dev/hda1 with LILO in the MBR. After that while installing RH on /dev/hda3 the Knoppix OS was not detected as the second OS. So I added a Entry called Knoppix and partition as /dev/hda1.
If you install RH later then simply choose not to configure the boot loader at the time of insatll. Then boot into Knoppix and add another entry in the lilo.conf which points to the RH install partition.
Grub and LILO are parallel -- we can have only one of them at a time.
quasi
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