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

[Noel McG.]

Hello Edward,

There is still tinkering going on in the background re lug.org.  As they mostly do things at the weekends it tends to get stretched out a bit.  You are not alone I fear, I seem to have missed a few as well.

Incidentally you are shown as edwardfw at aol.com on our mailing list, is the lack of capitals crucial?


Noel.


  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: EdwardFW at aol.com 
  To: herefordshire at mailman.lug.org.uk 
  Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 3:05 PM
  Subject: [Herefordshire] Re: Boot loaders/configuring (especially Grub) 


  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"

  ***********************************************************
  /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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