On Tue, 2005-05-24 at 11:21 -0400, Jim Li wrote: > i went to bootpart site. according to what they have... it looks like > they required the bootup loader to be lilo instead of grub. No, you don't need LILO. All bootpart does is call up another bootloader from a different partition, instead of the one in the MBR. LILO, or any other bootloader can be used. > so, i went > and copy the lilo executable from my other linux box and put it in > /sbin.. and i manually edit /etc/lilo.conf + grab a copy of > /boot/boot.b from my other machine. i went and change boot env > variable to boot=/dev/hdb1... i then ran lilo.. with a warning from > lilo that /dev/hdb1 is not the primary drive... which i simply ignore > since i know it is not. i reboot the system and ran bootpart... i then > have it grab the first 512 bytes of /dev/hdb1.. it then automatically > changes the boot.ini pointing to the /<path>/linux.bin that was > created on the previous step... reboot the machine again... and select > the linux partition... i got an endless 0101010101010101.... to > infinite... i am seriously thinking of reinstalling fedora3... now, > my question is, is there a way to install lilo instead of grub with > fedora 3. i can't find a way to go around it. > appreciate your suggestion and solution, Grub should be just fine. Try booting from the first/rescue CD and get to the system prompt. Then do: # chroot /mnt/sysimage # grub-install /dev/hdb1 See how that goes. Paul. -- Paul Howarth <paul@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
