- alternative to grub/lilo
- Posted by Hard Fiskur on October 24th, 2003
Hi guys and gals, long time reader, first time poster...
I'm wanting to set up a multi-boot where I have a 6 GB HD (don't laugh)
dual booting Win2K Server and RedHat Linux. This was set up by a pal of
mine who used Grub as the boot manager.
I have since added a secondary HD (40 GB) as the primary HD on the
second IDE. I installed Mandrake on this HD and cannot get Grub to
properly boot Mandrake, even though I have edited Grub to what I think
was the proper settings (apparently not). I am not at the system so
cannot post the errors or Grub settings.
I was looking at alternate boot managers and see there is one called
XOSL but the webpage www.xosl.org is no longer available. Anyone have
any suggestions regarding 3rd party boot managers to lilo or grub?
Thanks in advance!
- Posted by HamMan on October 24th, 2003
"Hard Fiskur" <sittingonmyarse@home.com> wrote in message
news:mYemb.25348$4J.397@news2.mts.net...
I think the new(er) versions of Partition Magic can do multiple boots with
linux.
I say think because i can see no point to installing more than 2 OS's
- Posted by Ken Briscoe on October 24th, 2003
Cross-platform programming, data testing, etc. One of our computers at a
place I used to work was a quad-boot. My job, basically, was to do as much
damage to the computers (not physically...) as possible, one OS at a time. I
tested software the software engineers wrote...I was the "burn-in" guy. We
had Red Hat, Windows 2000, Windows 98, and a rotating cast of role players
for the 4th....Mandrake, MS-DOS, NT 4.0, other Linux flavors, etc.
--
KB
first inital last name AT hotmail DOT com
- Posted by mortda on October 24th, 2003
Try the link below for a freeware bootmanager that might be of help.
Mortda
http://gag.sourceforge.net/download.html
"HamMan" <hamman@meenhouse.imawanker.freeserve.spam.co.uk > wrote in message
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- Posted by why? on October 24th, 2003
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 19:20:50 GMT, Hard Fiskur wrote:
Sounds like a bad joke.... ^^^^
It it an alternative because of the editing / non functioning issue?
LILO will handle multi/mixed OS and multi Linux (for mixed kernel
testing) quite well.
Maybe,
www.osloader.com
ranish partition manager http://www.ranish.com/
Wonder if you can mix LILO with one of these
http://www.hyperos2002.com/ which is a MS Win multi Windows running in
memory at the same time.
Me
- Posted by why? on October 24th, 2003
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 20:41:57 +0100, HamMan wrote:
running now.
Me
- Posted by Hard Fiskur on October 24th, 2003
huge help, thanks.... next.
Ken Briscoe wrote:
- Posted by Hard Fiskur on October 24th, 2003
Terrific, thank you!
mortda wrote:
- Posted by Hard Fiskur on October 24th, 2003
I'm full of em... bad jokes.... thanks for the link!
why? wrote:
- Posted by Hard Fiskur on October 24th, 2003
I'm glad he sees no point in it... I'm not doing this for his benefit
though...
why? wrote:
- Posted by SgtMinor on October 24th, 2003
Hard Fiskur wrote:
Really? A Google search shows 31 posts by Hard Fiskur in 24HSHD, some
with the same lame addy you're using now.
http://www.google.com/groups?safe=im...skur&lr=&hl=en
Has someone been scamming your name?
<snip>
- Posted by Hard Fiskur on October 24th, 2003
No, it's me... that was a joke... long time listener, first time
poster.... a joke....
SgtMinor wrote:
- Posted by William Poaster on October 24th, 2003
It was on Fri, 24 Oct 2003 20:41:57 +0100, just as I was halfway through a
large jam doughnut, that HamMan made this utterance:
I have 3 partitions, one with a stable SuSE linux running, one for
trying & compiling experimental linux kernels ( like the 2.6 ), &
one to try another linux distro...Mandrake, RedHat or whatever....
which is empty ATM. Also, as SuSE 9 is going to have an option of
installing a 64-bit operating system and applications that makes use
of the Athlon(tm) 64 processor, it will be handy to install it in another
partition to try it out.
- Posted by SgtMinor on October 25th, 2003
Oh, I see, a joke! Is your addy for real or is that also a joke?
Hard Fiskur wrote:
- Posted by B.Al.Zeebub on October 25th, 2003
Hard Fiskur wrote:
Before you go messing with installing bootloaders it may help to have a
read of the Grub Manual, specifically Booting and Configuration. I use
Mandrake 9.1 with Lilo and haven't had a problem with it. Great desktop
distro.
B.
- Posted by B. Al. Zeebub on October 25th, 2003
On Sat, 25 Oct 2003 03:25:34 +0000, B. Al. Zeebub read and pondered :
Try again with the link. Using Pan and Mandrake.
http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub-0.92/html_mono/grub.html
- Posted by Boomer on October 25th, 2003
"B. Al. Zeebub" <b.al.zeebub@666.con> wrote in
news:Bcmmb.164211$bo1.39931@news-server.bigpond.net.au:
Thanks. I may need that one of these days.
- Posted by B. Al. Zeebub on October 25th, 2003
On Fri, 24 Oct 2003 23:49:43 -0400, B. Al. Zeebub read and pondered :
( on my box; in a console type: "$ su [password] # kate /etc/lilo.conf")
To bring up the lilo configuration file, like this:
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
default="linux"
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hdb2
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/hdb2
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label="winxp"
and manually edit the file from there. That's what I like about Linux.
Maybe I'll try Gag on another box at some stage in the future.
Cheers.
B.
