[olug] Getting LILO back

[Daniel Pfile]

oops, my bad, the docs are in the tar ball in gnu info files, i asumed you
downloaded that and looked at it, just checks out the directory named
'docs' winzip can handle .tar.gz files just dandy

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just use rawrite.exe to write the image on the ftp site to a floppy.

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-boot-0.5.95.image

you can find rawrite.exe on practicly every linux distro site

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or grab the tarball and stick the two files together with

copy /b stage1 + stage2 grub.raw

then rawrite grub.raw to the floppy

ftp://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/grub/grub-boot-0.5.95.tar.gz

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enjoy


| Daniel Pfile        | I'm to cool for a signature |
| pfiled at marietta.edu | --------------------------- |

On Sun, 6 Aug 2000, Jay Woods wrote:

> I was unable to follow up on your message because the site you gave had no clue as to how to
> use Windows to build the floppy. ---Jay
> 
> Daniel Pfile wrote:
> 
> > Did you get my email about grub? I'm not kidding, it's really easy
> > compared to lilo, and better.
> >
> > Here's how to do it
> >
> > 1: Create a grub boot floppy according to the manual from within windows
> > 2: Figure out what disk and partition linux is on, ide and scsi are not
> > distinguised, it goes by what the bios sees, i'll use the second disk,
> > first partition for the example (1,0). Then figure out which device
> > LINUX thinks the root / partition is on, i'll use /dev/sda1 for my example.
> > 3: Figure out where your kernel is, i'll use /vmlinuz for an example,
> > you may have one in /boot/vmlinuz /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17, and so on, grub
> > supports command line completion, so just start typing at the grub
> > prompt and hit tab to fill in the names of files.
> > 4: Stick the floppy in, reboot computer
> > 5: At grub> prompt, type: 'grub> kernel hd(1,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda1'
> > 6: add any other kernel options you want (in addition to root=/dev/sda1)
> > by putting a space and the option for example: 'grub> hd(1,0)/vmlinuz
> > root=/dev/sda1 mem=256M single'
> > 7: hit enter
> > 8: if it finds the kernel, it will respond with a message saying so.
> > 9: type 'grub> boot'
> > 10: watch linux boot
> >
> > check out the grub manual, web page, faq for more information on how to
> > put grub on your hard disk it's self, make a cool looken menu, make it
> > load 98, nt, w2k, fbsd, etc, etc, etc.
> >
> > - Daniel
> >
> > Jay Woods wrote:
> > >
> > > I want to thank everybody for their help. Unfortunately nothing is working out. I have
> > > been able to boot up with tomsrtbt - 1.7.101 and my stuff is still there. However:
> > >
> > >     I haven't been able to boot up from the CD-ROM (for example, Linux Mandrake v7.02).
> > >     I can boot up on the emergency boot disk with the command at LILO of linux
> > > root=/dev/hdb6 BUT it always tries to boot to hda6 which isn't there.
> > >     I have been able to set up a new lilo.conf file that has hdb6 instead of hda6 BUT
> > > when I run lilo at the root command line, it refuses to write to the MBR saying
> > > something about it isn't marked for it.
> > >
> > > I'm ready to pay for somebody to come and fix it. ---Jay
> > >
> >
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