On Wed, Feb 27, 2008 at 01:00:07PM -0800, Alan Ianson wrote:
> booting more than 1 linux system. Lilo will do this but all the kernels
> need to be in the same /boot directory,
no, the kernels (and initrds) can be wherever you want provided that
they are in filesystems which are mounted at the ti
Movib=g further off-topic, I've never understood why people use GRUB.
LILO
seems so much lighter weight to achieve the same effect.
Can anybody enlighten me?
Lilo has always worked well for me. I find grub easier to use when
booting more than 1 linux system. Lilo will do this but all the ke
Tony van der Hoff wrote:
On 26 Feb at 12:36 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Huub wrote:
You did not make a rescue CD or Floppy?
I can boot into Rescue mode from DVD. I managed to restore a Fedora
machine by booting into Rescue mode from DVD, so I fig
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:44:29PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
> Movib=g further off-topic, I've never understood why people use GRUB. LILO
> seems so much lighter weight to achieve the same effect.
You mean the functionality of exploring the contents of your file
systems through tab complet
Huub wrote:
I can boot into Rescue mode from DVD. I managed to restore a Fedora
machine by booting into Rescue mode from DVD, so I figure Debian can do
the same. Or not?
Yes you can! If you have a separate /boot partition, then after booting
in rescue mode mount your /boot partition at /b
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:44:29PM +, Tony van der Hoff wrote:
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> Movib=g further off-topic, I've never understood why people use GRUB. LILO
> seems so much lighter weight to achieve the same effect.
>
> Can anybody enlighten me?
I keep asking myself the same question. I suppose the p
On Tue, 26 Feb 2008 12:44:29 +
Tony van der Hoff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hello Tony,
> Movib=g further off-topic, I've never understood why people use GRUB.
> LILO seems so much lighter weight to achieve the same effect.
For me, it was because I kept forgetting to run LILO whenever I cha
Movib=g further off-topic, I've never understood why people use GRUB. LILO
seems so much lighter weight to achieve the same effect.
Can anybody enlighten me?
It's not GRUB2. It's GRUB, error 2. And I can't enlighten you because
GRUB got installed by default.
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On 26 Feb at 12:36 Hugo Vanwoerkom <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Huub wrote:
>>>
> > > You did not make a rescue CD or Floppy?
>>>
>>>
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> > I can boot into Rescue mode from DVD. I managed to restore a Fedora
> > machine by booting into Rescue mode from DVD, so I fig
Huub wrote:
You did not make a rescue CD or Floppy?
I can boot into Rescue mode from DVD. I managed to restore a Fedora
machine by booting into Rescue mode from DVD, so I figure Debian can do
the same. Or not?
I only tried GRUB2 once and went back to GRUB because I could not get it
t
You did not make a rescue CD or Floppy?
I can boot into Rescue mode from DVD. I managed to restore a Fedora
machine by booting into Rescue mode from DVD, so I figure Debian can do
the same. Or not?
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Huub wrote:
Hi,
My AthlonXP running Debian Etch, had a spontaneous reboot and now shows
Grub error 2. I can't edit menu.lst because all I get is:
GRUB Loading stage1.5
GRUB loading
Error 2.
I can't even press Esc to edit the boot menu.
I booted into rescue mode, but now grub is only o
Hi,
My AthlonXP running Debian Etch, had a spontaneous reboot and now shows
Grub error 2. I can't edit menu.lst because all I get is:
GRUB Loading stage1.5
GRUB loading
Error 2.
I can't even press Esc to edit the boot menu.
I booted into rescue mode, but now grub is only on dvd. Unless
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