PC running (SuSE 8.2 Pro / WinME) bootloader lilo -> grub
Hi List, I have belatedly made the change from lilo to grub carefully converting my lilo config to grub'ese. It seems to work as expected. However, I have a couple of questions which I cannot track down in any off-line source (man, info, howto's etc.) and I am not able to trawl google or list archive with a time-limited unmetered dial-up connection at present. 1. In lilo I always used the boot-floppy option so as not to upset WinME. How do I do something similar in grub? 2. When the bootloader menu appeared in lilo I could interactively overide the default runlevel (ie: boot to runlevel 3 not 5) when necessary. How is this achieved in the grub menu? I will accept a URL to the appropriate list archive entry or web page. Apologies if this has been dealt with before. -- ** Message sent via KDE KMail v1.7.2 on SuSE Linux v8.2 ** Please reply in the format that this message is sent. ** Thanks.
On Fri, 2005-02-04 at 17:19, Mick Higgins wrote:
Hi List,
I have belatedly made the change from lilo to grub carefully converting my lilo config to grub'ese. It seems to work as expected.
However, I have a couple of questions which I cannot track down in any off-line source (man, info, howto's etc.) and I am not able to trawl google or list archive with a time-limited unmetered dial-up connection at present.
1. In lilo I always used the boot-floppy option so as not to upset WinME. How do I do something similar in grub?
Not sure myself.
2. When the bootloader menu appeared in lilo I could interactively overide the default runlevel (ie: boot to runlevel 3 not 5) when necessary. How is this achieved in the grub menu?
At the boot prompt add a 3 or what ever runlevel you want to override the default start level. -- Ken Schneider UNIX since 1989, linux since 1994, SuSE since 1998 * Only reply to the list please* "The day Microsoft makes something that doesn't suck is probably the day they start making vacuum cleaners." -Ernst Jan Plugge
On Fri, 4 Feb 2005 22:19:55 +0000
Mick Higgins
1. In lilo I always used the boot-floppy option so as not to upset WinME. How do I do something similar in grub? Do you want to create a boot floppy? You can use YaST to do this.
Here is the info page on GRUB. Note that stage1 is what gets installed
in the MBR of your hard disk (or floppy), and stage2 is what stage1
boots. Then stage2 boots the OS you want. In contrast, LILO must know
where the target OS is, so LILO's stage2 is actually the target OS
kernel.
Creating a GRUB boot floppy
===========================
To create a GRUB boot floppy, you need to take the files `stage1'
and `stage2' from the image directory, and write them to the first and
the second block of the floppy disk, respectively.
*Caution:* This procedure will destroy any data currently stored on
the floppy.
On a UNIX-like operating system, that is done with the following
commands:
# cd /usr/share/grub/i386-pc
# dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1
1+0 records in
1+0 records out
# dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1
153+1 records in
153+1 records out
#
The device file name may be different. Consult the manual for your
OS.
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Jerry Feldman
Hi list Has anyone heard something about how to configure a pbx on a SuSE distro? I mean: On the latest release of SuSE (OSS 10.0) can Asterisk run/act as server or is SuSE still a client to a pbx server? If it can act as a server is there some gui-tool for it? Current releases for a gui shown at http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+GUI are either commercial or rely on a specialised release of linux like centos, debian or whatever. Thanks in advance and greetings Peter
Hi Peter and all, <quote who="peter">
Hi list Has anyone heard something about how to configure a pbx on a SuSE distro? I mean: On the latest release of SuSE (OSS 10.0) can Asterisk run/act as server or is SuSE still a client to a pbx server?
Well, I have an Asterisk PBX running on SuSE 9.2... depending on how you use/configure it, the system will act either as server for incoming/outgoing calls (default) or client when interconnecting with other Asterisk boxes through the IAX protocol...
If it can act as a server is there some gui-tool for it? Current releases for a gui shown at http://www.voip-info.org/wiki-Asterisk+GUI are either commercial or rely on a specialised release of linux like centos, debian or whatever.
Sorry, I cannot help you there... all configuration work I did directly on the conf files or from the Asterisk console... HTH, Martin -- Martin Mielke - Systems Architect - martin.mielke@thalesgroup.com THALES Services Division - http://www.thales-is.com/ T: (+34) 91 556 92 62 - F: (+34) 91 556 42 40 - M: (+34) 618 764 658
On a UNIX-like operating system, that is done with the following commands:
# cd /usr/share/grub/i386-pc # dd if=stage1 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 count=1 1+0 records in 1+0 records out # dd if=stage2 of=/dev/fd0 bs=512 seek=1 153+1 records in 153+1 records out #
The device file name may be different. Consult the manual for your OS.
Jerry, I am familiar with this info page. However it does not work, I get a "stage(x) geometry" error (where (x) may be 1 or 2, I'd have to reboot again to check) and have to reboot without the floppy. I'm convinced that I should be altering the grub.conf in some way but I'm not sure how! Not sure whether this is relevant, but my (yast created) /boot/grub/device.map contains (hd0) /dev/hda (fd0) /dev/sda Should (fd0) be /dev/sda? On my system sda4 is my parallel zip 250 drive. PS: Thanks Ken for pointing out what seems obvious now regarding runlevel. Maybe seeing the boot params displayed in the boot menu, unlike lilo, confused me.
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