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  • From: Ian <info AT freedomnet.org.uk>
  • To: baslinux AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [BL] GRUB to boot BL?
  • Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2005 20:53:11 +0000 (GMT)

This isnt a serious problem with Lilo such as you had but I find
having to type "Linux" or whatever I want booted rather irksome.
The latest Lilo starts with a menu from which you can choose with
up or down keys. How does grub compare with this? Does it start
with a menu?

James Miller writes:
> I recently was forced to find a way to boot my firewall/router system
> (Freesco) using the GRUB bootloader. Freesco used to run only on UMSDOS,
> but the last release made it possible to run from an ext2 partition. With
> that change came also the appearance of the LILO bootloader to boot the
> system with. I had many problems with installing LILO on my Freesco
> system, and when I went to upgrade the HD in that machine recently (it's
> my local fileserver, too), I simply could not get LILO to boot the system
> any more. After a good deal of research and experimentation I was able to
> boot the system with GRUB, first by using a GRUB boot floppy, then by
> installing GRUB to the HD from the GRUB boot floppy. It doesn't give the
> full install of GRUB, but it's enough of GRUB for probably 98% of the
> population's use. If this seems like something useful or desireable for
> BL, I think I could easily adapt those instructions for use with BL. Is
> there any interest on the part of BL users in using the GRUB bootloader?
> Let me know, and I'll put together a how to.
>
> James

--
Bye now,
Ian.





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