On Tue, 11 May 2004 19:06:16 -0400 John Nelson <developer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hey all, > > I have had nothing but problems installing Fedora Core, and the issues > > seem to center around grub installing on top of an existing Lilo > installation. On one system there were grub files missing from > /boot/grub. On another system I got "try passing init= to the kernel". > > On another system the grub.conf file refuses to boot up Windows XP on > a second disk. On yet another machine I'm getting compression errors > while booting the kernel. If I leave Lilo intact on my laptop, the > screen turns psychodelic when Lilo comes up. > > Grub has never worked for me, even when I can get it patched up to > work properly. Is there a trick to installing over FC1 or RH systems? > This is REALLY frustrating! Sorry to hear you have been having that many problems, John. All I can say is that GRUB also let me down a few days ago (read 'GRUB Blues' thread posted recently). In my case, I believe it might be BIOS fault, but I could workaround it anyway (by manually configuring GRUB at every boot... =/ ). Hope GRUB installation (and GRUB itself) improves on FC2. Best, Andre -- Andre Oliveira da Costa
