[OLUG] lilo

[Nathan Brown]

Daniel Pfile wrote:

> ahhh lilo... i've found lilo to... well.... suck!
>
> i've been using GRUB for a while now, and i love it, it's so much nicer
> than lilo, and can be loaded from within a windows system easily.
>
> freshmeat says:
>
> GNU GRUB is a Multiboot loader. It was derived from GRUB. It is an attempt
> to produce a bootloader for IBM PC-compatible machines that
>    has both the capability to be friendly to beginning or otherwise
> non-technically interested users and the flexibility to help experts in
>    diverse environments. It is compatible with Free/Net/OpenBSD and
> Linux. It supports Win 9x/NT and OS/2 via chain-loaders. It has a
>    menu interface and a command-line interface.
>
> it's slick, i dig it, i'll probobly never go back to lilo again.
>
> oh yah, url is:
> http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/
>
> # Daniel Pfile        # I have no cool signature.
> # pfiled at marietta.edu # Finger for free illegal software.
>
> On Tue, 4 Apr 2000, Chris Garrity wrote:
>
> >       If you can boot, then just run 'lilo' as root.  If you're stuck at the
> > 'Boot:' prompt, you need to specify the parition where your root
> > directory is located.  Something like:
> >
> >       Boot: linux single root=/dev/hdXX initrd=
> >
> >       Wil get into run level one, where you can rerun lilo and reboot.
> >
> > _chris
> >
> > Nathan Brown wrote:
> > >
> > > can somone tell me how to setup lilo on a system that is running.
> > > I had to reinstall windows 98 into it's partition. When I did that
> > > windows wiped out my use to be lilo.
> > > I have a boot disk but I don't know the command to get to lilo to set it
> > > up again.
> > > thanks
> > > Nate
> >
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Ok! i will try it but which file do i download .... there were about 10 in the
list
thanks
nate




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