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  • From: Jeremy Kolb <jkolb AT brandeis.edu>
  • To: Adam Clark <adamsgl AT dhbit.ca>
  • Cc: eric AT sourcemage.com, sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Updated ISO
  • Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2003 18:01:07 -0500

i just watched a friend install knoppix and the install went bad with lilo. if he had had grub it would have been easy to go in and fix it on the fly. it's more of a preference thing with me :) im just thinking that it would be nice to give the user an explicit choice that's all, if it's not deemed necessary for the iso that's fine.

Jeremy

Adam Clark wrote:

Nope, and I'm not sure why this keeps coming up - probably ignorance on my
part, but here's what I've seen on this discussion in the past:

lilo handles pretty much every i386ish system

grub has problems with some systems

So, if this is the case and grub is just a 'preference' thing, what's to
stop one from replacing lilo with grub after the install?

If the above is not true, then we should figure out some option to supply
both on the ISO.

On Thu, 16 Jan 2003 15:21:33 -0500
Jeremy Kolb <jkolb AT brandeis.edu> wrote:


is there a grub option for boot on the new iso?

Jeremy

Eric Womack wrote:


Quoting "Sergey A. Lipnevich" <sergeyli AT pisem.net>:



I have cleared the MBR and am re-installing. If this works, it would

be>>
nice

to have that option available from the install menu.



Which option? To reset MBR? Can't you use one of the partitioning tools offered during install?


Yes, and Yes I could, I was just saying it would be a nice menu option so
I don't have to shell out of an install.




Or isn't lilo doing this if you edit /etc/lilo.conf appropriately?


No, it isn't. And now, having re-installed again (after wiping the MBR),
it doesn't boot at all!

For the record, I wiped it with this:

dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda bs=512 count=1
I am now going to do the whole drive, and start over.




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