I've built a realtime kernel, and would like to select it a boot time. Here's
basically what I have for grub.conf:

default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Red Hat Linux (2.4.7-10)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10 ro root=/dev/hda6
initrd /initrd-2.4.7-10.img
title Realtime Linux (xxx)
root (hd0,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10-rtl3.2 ro root=LABEL/
initrd /initrd-2.4.7-10-rtl3.2.img

I don't have a initrd-2.4.7-10-rtl3.2.img file, so either I don't need the initrd or
I goofed in building the kernel. I commented it out, but I still get one choice for a
kernel when I boot. Something's amiss. What?
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On Mon, 23 Feb 2004 01:03:53 +0000, W. Watson wrote:

The correct line;

kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.7-10-rtl3.2 ro root=/dev/hda6

Also check that the /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10-rtl3.2 file does exist.


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Lenard wrote:

using GRUB. I just installed RH 9.0 and thought I specified GRUB. But the graphics
boot window doesn't seem at all like what I put in grub.conf. How do I know which
loader I'm really using?

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dd if=/dev/hda count=1 | strings

If it says grub, you're using grub.
If it says lilo, you're using lilo.
If says something else ...

(If hda is not what you are booting from, change that)

Eric

W. Watson wrote:

If you want grub, why not say "grub-install --recheck /dev/hda" ?

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Timothy Murphy wrote:
had some idea that maybe I would install GRUB, but guess I didn't.

Is it possible to change bootloaders at will?

grub-install --recheck /dev/hda -- one day
lilo-install --recheck /dev/hda -- another day

I don't really plan to do that, just curious.

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you need to run lilo before the changes are applied.
run `/sbin/lilo` to commit the changes in lilo.conf

Yes, it is.

lilo has different syntax. Just run:

/sbin/lilo

to install lilo


Eric

W. Watson wrote:

Perfectly possible.

Personally, if I'm in any doubt about my boot-loader,
I save the MBR with
dd if=/dev/hda of=mbr-lilo bs=512 count=1
and then if something goes wrong it can be re-installed with
dd if=mbr-lilo of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1

I feel grub is quite a lot safer,
since the MBR is not re-written each time you change grub.conf .
Also it is reasonably easy to go into interactive mode
if any problems do occur
(though I find the documentation in "info grub" less than lucid
on this).

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