Boot loaders

[Charles Rishel]

Ron,

I dual boot my workstation also.  Gotta keep Windows around till Wine will 
play all the games I like ;-)
    At any rate, I still use LILO.. of course I have been running fine for 
about 2 years on a nice stable install/customization of Mdk 6.5.  I have 
that on my workstation and my fileserver.  I have a crash box that I have 
been playing with new distro's on, but I have found that I REALLY have to 
remove a lot of junk from the 7.2 and 8.x versions of mandrake.  Personally 
I cannot stand Aurora, I like to see what is happening at bootup (successes 
or failures).. of course there is the option to disable it, but it took 
some time to find the right spot for that.
    As far as Grub, I have never used it really, I guess I have messed with 
LILO for so long that it just comes naturally.

Here is a copy of my /etc/lilo.conf file for your reference.  You will 
notice that I have Winblows installed on my first hard drive /dev/hda1 and 
Linux installed on /dev/hdb1
I also have installed LILO to the MBR of the primary hard drive.  I have 
heard of others having to create small partitions on their primary drive to 
install LILO under 1024 cylinders, but since I have an 8GB and 7GB hard 
drives, that does not apply to me.  If you have like a 20GB hard drive 
there may be other parameters that you will have to have or take into 
consideration.

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
default=linux
timeout=50
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13-4mdk
         label=linux
         root=/dev/hdb1
         read-only
other=/dev/hda1
         label=dos
         table=/dev/hda

Hope this helps ya,
Chaz®


At 11:09 AM 2/15/02 -0500, you wrote:
>Hi All
>
>         I'm reading the installation guide for RedHat 7.2 before 
> installing it and
>it suggests using GRUB as the boot loader rather than the now legacy loader,
>LILO. I was wondering if anyone has used it and how they liked it. Also I'm
>installing RH 7.2 in a pardon me for saying it windoze box. The main HDD has
>win 98 se. I have another HDD unused and ready for Linux. In the guide there
>is a screen caption that shows a field for boot label. Since there is win 98
>also on this box then there should be a second field for the boot label of
>the other OS aka win 98 right? In the little notation on page 56 it states
>that you can tab in the field (prompt) to display a list of defined boot
>labels. I take it that Windows 98 should be in that list? Would the default
>be DOS and I would have to change to Windows 98?
>
>         If I'm on the right track please let me know. I would like to 
> install it
>right the first time. Also on configuring KPPP I see its not automatic as
>like Mandrake. Anyone have some input on this subject for me? Any tricks or
>tips?
>
>Well see you all at the meeting
>
>Ron Maggio