Re: Changing the Bootloader from GRUB to LILO

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On 6/1/06, Rick Stevens <rstevens@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 13:40 -0500, Matthew Benjamin wrote:
>
>
> On 6/1/06, Clint Olson <colson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>         Rick Stevens wrote:
>         > On Thu, 2006-06-01 at 09:45 -0500, Matthew Benjamin wrote:
>         >
>         >> Can someone tell me how to change your boot loader from
>         GRUB to LILO?
>         >>
>         >
>         > Good lord, why?  Grub is FAR more capable than LILO
>         It's also a bit more complex to configure than Lilo.  I know
>         that I
>         personally prefer Lilo, where you can simply and easily edit
>         its single
>         configuration file by hand, using the familiar /dev/hda1
>         syntax to
>         denote partitions.  I've never run into anything Lilo can't
>         handle, so
>         why work with complexity if you don't have to?
>
>         *shrugs* Ah well.  I can see this guy's point, but I also know
>         that
>         there are no Lilo packages for FC5, hence removing Lilo's
>         simplicity
>         advantage.
>
>         Clint Olson
>
>         -
>
> grub  wouldn't be so bad  but I can't get pass the stupid grub>
> prompt to boot up.
>
> i have done the
> install --stage2=/boot/grub/stage2 (hd0,0)/grub/stage1 (hd0) \
>          (hd0,0)/grub/stage2 p (hd0,0)/grub/grub.conf
>
> to no avail... augghhhhh!!!

There's two ways to do it.  1) Boot off the rescue CD in single user
mode, then:

        # chroot /mnt/sysimage/boot
        # grub-install /dev/hda
        # exit (leaves the chroot environment)
        # exit (exits the rescue boot)

2) Use grub, but the easier sequence is:

        grub> root (hd0,0)
        grub> setup (hd0)

That assumes that the the stage1 loader is in /boot/grub and that /boot
is NOT a separate partition.  If you're not sure, use the sequence:

        grub> find /boot/grub/stage1
        grub> root (whatever-the-find-command-displays)
        grub> setup (hd0)


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Ok I did try what you said and it work perfectly. Thanks and I will try to read the instructions better from now on.
mB.

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