On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 07:45:37AM -0400, Joe(theWordy)Philbrook wrote: > With grub, If I goofed the grub.conf so bad that I couldn't get back in, > then the emergency/auxiliary boot floppy couldn't help, so maybe they > didn't think the option worth keeping. But in duel boots the MOST likely > trashing IMHO of the boot loader is the overwriting of the mbr. And in > that case... Grub gives you a shell where you can enter any grub command, and try to boot from there. If you could boot with an older grub.conf, you can boot from that shell. > Still, it may be a moot point to me anyway. If I don't find a solution > soon that lets grub actually boot my DrDos (/dev/hdc1) which lilo "can" > still boot, I'll be regulating grub to a floppy boot system anyway, And > use the "menu" enabled version of lilo from my mandrake 9.1 to maintain > my primary mbr bootloader... (sigh, I wanted to use grub for forward > compatibility, but losing dos, is less acceptable than losing windows > would be) Doesn't lilo.conf have a setting to reorder harddisks? Try it on grub: map (hd0) (hd1) map (hd1) (hd0) and then chainload the dos bootsector. Regards, Luciano Rocha -- Consciousness: that annoying time between naps.
