[Herefordshire] Re: Boot loaders/configuring (especially Grub)

[EdwardFW at aol.com]

Hi Andrew

I am only getting HLUG emails by collecting them from the web site and they 
are delayed

Hope you have had good answers by now

"Grub is generally more flexible and a lot more forgiving of system errors. 
For example, LiLO generally requires that an alternate boot disk is used if the 
kernel configuration renders the system unbootable Grub allows "on-the-fly" 
modification of kernel location, boot parameters, kernel to boot, etc.. "

I found the next bit  WARNING IT IS FROM SUSE HELP

"To enter changed boot options permanently and pass them to the kernel, open 
the file menu.lst as the user root and append the respective kernel parameters 
to the existing line, separated by spaces: 

title linux 
       kernel (hd0,0)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 additional parameter
       initrd (hd0,0)/initrd

GRUB automatically adopts the new parameters the next time the system is 
booted"

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/etc/grub.conf 
contains the parameters and options the command grub needs for installing the 
boot loader correctly:  
root (hd0,4) 
       install /grub/stage1 d (hd0) /grub/stage2 0x8000 (hd0,4)/grub/menu.lst 

       quit

Meaning of the individual entries:
root (hd0,4)
This command tells GRUB to apply the following commands to the first logical 
partition of the first hard disk (the location of the boot files). 
install <parameter>
The command grub should be run with the parameter install. 
stage1 of the boot loader should be installed in the MBR of the first hard 
disk (/grub/stage1 d (hd0)). 
stage2 should be loaded to the memory address 0x8000 (/grub/stage2 0x8000). 
The last entry ((hd0,4)/grub/menu.lst) tells GRUB where to look for the menu 
file. 

Not sure this is what you need but hope it helps

Regards, Edward


















    























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