Re: LILO --> GRUB

2003-07-08 Thread Vineet Kumar
* Kenneth Jacker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [030707 09:47]: > km> I recommend making a boot floppy: > > km> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4622 > > Well I was able to make the boot floppy ... > > But *now*, I can't even run "grub-install /dev/hda" without an error > message: > >

Re: LILO --> GRUB

2003-07-07 Thread Kenneth Jacker
ar> Err, it is 446 :) Made no difference ... grub-install *still* gives the error message and exits ... -Kenneth -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: LILO --> GRUB

2003-07-07 Thread Kenneth Jacker
ar> You can try zeroing the MBR (not including the partition table) ar> and rerun grub-install. Try the following: ar> dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.bak bs=512 count=1 ar> this will make a backup of your mbr including the partition ar> table. Then run: ar> dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=443

Re: LILO --> GRUB

2003-07-07 Thread Andrés Roldán
Andrés Roldán <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can try zeroing the MBR (not including the partition table) and rerun > grub-install. Try the following: > > dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.bak bs=512 count=1 > > this will make a backup of your mbr including the partition table. Then run: > > dd if=/dev/zer

Re: LILO --> GRUB

2003-07-07 Thread Andrés Roldán
You can try zeroing the MBR (not including the partition table) and rerun grub-install. Try the following: dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr.bak bs=512 count=1 this will make a backup of your mbr including the partition table. Then run: dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=443 count=1 After the 443 byte it is th

Re: LILO --> GRUB

2003-07-07 Thread Kenneth Jacker
km> I recommend making a boot floppy: km> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4622 Well I was able to make the boot floppy ... But *now*, I can't even run "grub-install /dev/hda" without an error message: /dev/hda does not have any corresponding BIOS drive Note that I can co

Re: LILO --> GRUB

2003-07-07 Thread Manolis Tzanidakis
[20030706] Kenneth Jacker ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > I've been successfully booting into Debian-3.0 using LILO. > > Having used GRUB for many years on other systems, I decided to go > ahead and install/configure it. Here (similar to what was suggested > by another poster) is what I did: > >