First, the DOS fdisk with the /mbr parameter should reset the master boot record regardless of whether you have LILO or Grub installed. I am using Grub, and after learning it, I find it considerably superior to LILO. The first reason is that it inserts code into the MBR to boot a stage2. The stage2 boots your target OS based on a menu. In contrast, LILO inserts code into the MBR to boot a specific kernel, so that each time you install a new kernel, you must also run LILO. Another advantage of GRUB is that you can easily add elements to boot up with a different profile. But, the transition from LILO to Grub is something new. In short, when setting up GRUB, a grub subdirectory is added in your /boot directory. This is where the stage2 is located. The menu (menu.lst) is also located there. The simplest way to either fix GRUB or install LILO is to use YaST. Click on System/Boot Loader Configuration The first thing you want to do is to select boot loader type. Your choices are GRUB, LILO, and none. Then follow instructions from there. Then, I would recommend that you do install GRUB at a later date once you are comfortable with 9.0. Note that when installing 9.0, I installed 9.0 into a separate disk and maintained a triple boot for a while, Windows ME, SuSE 8.2 and SuSE 9.0. On Sat, 24 Jul 2004 14:43:01 -0400 David Johanson <dcjohan@patriot.net> wrote:
spent the last two days "upgrading" my systems by installing 9.0. In the process I've encountered several problems with Grub.
First, I'd like to remove grub from the system and replace with LILO, or at least that's my thought at the moment. With LILO I could simply boot the 98se drive to DOS and type "fdisk /mbr." Doesn't seem to work with grub. What do I need to know about GRUB in order to remove it?
Second, I'm currently getting the following error message at boot:
GRUB Loading Stage 2 . . . graphics file "(hd1,1) /dev/null" missing, press a key to continue . . .
which give me a text loading screen. What is the file I'm missing, where do I go get it, and where do I place it once I've found a copy.
The box is configured as follows: sda (winders) needed for wife's work sdb (SuSE 8.2) my current mail box sdc (SuSE 9.0) where I'd like to migrate everything
My goal was to first update sdb from 7.3 to 8.2 as I'm fairly comfortable with this release having run it on another box for a while. That didn't migrate as well as I had hoped, it wouldn't boot, so I ended up attempting doing a repair with the SuSE 9.0 CD. I got a lot of error message from the SuSE distro CD attempting the repair, but I'm working off that release right now so the mail stuff seems to be stable for now. I then did a new install of 9.0 on sdc. I had GREAT difficulty getting the boot loader to go anywhere but sda which isn't my first choice (IBM 73 G SCSI drive that is not fully stable) but that is where it is at the moment. Grub wouldn't write to the floppy, and while it would write to sdc or sdb, these choices resulted in either a "no operating system" message or a grub hard halt display with GRUB and two spaces followed by a flashing cursor.
I've got a few more GRUB questions, but I'll save those for later.
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