[olug] Getting LILO back

Tue Aug 8 07:30:05 UTC 2000

Check out www.powerarchiver.com. This is a zip utility that works better than winzip but it's
free. I can uncompress tar and tar.gz archives. Check it out I think you'll like it.

At 8/7/00 6:20:00 AM, you wrote:
>I have found out that grub-boot-0.5.95.tar.gz doesn't have the documentation. To find out this
>much meant that I had to locate, purchase, and download WinZip. (I have used an evaluation copy
>for years on another system no longer available to me. It seemed only right to purchase one for a
>change.) The grub-0.5.95.tar.gz is innocent of holding a docs subdirectory. However, it does have
>a bunch of .texi files which look worthwhile. Note: I am having to use a seldom used copy of
>Windoze. This means that I can't as the Readme says "See the GRUB manual for details about using
>GRUB as your bootloader. Type "info grub" in the shell prompt." Now there is a grub.info file
>which is not terribly readable by human beings. However, there is a reference to a grub.texi file.
>This is a little more readable and references a tutorial.texi file. I should be able to read over
>this file (and use the results this evening). Yes, the rawrite program (and an even better one,
>suitable for windows) is on the Linux Mandrage 7.02 CD-ROM. Now if I can get the verdammen CD-RW
>drive to actually open and recognize I've put a CD-ROM in it, life will proceed. THIS time I'm
>going to copy all those windows utilities onto the hard drive. ---Jay
>
>
>Daniel Pfile wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>> ---
>>
>> 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
>>
>> ---
>>
>> 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
>>
>> ---
>>
>> 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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