Speaking of Grub: was Re: [lug] Dual boot from two hard drives, LILO

[Scott A. Herod]

Speaking of grub, can someone tell me how to convert the marked lines in 
my lilo.conf file to the appropriate ones in grub.conf?

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-itv
         label=linux-test
         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-itv.img
         read-only
         root=/dev/hda2
->      vga=0x301
->      append="console=/dev/tty2 CONSOLE=/dev/tty2"


Is something like the following correct?

title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-3)
         root (hd0,0)
         kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hda2 vga=0x301 \
		append="console=/dev/tty2 CONSOLE=/dev/tty2"
         initrd /initrd-2.4.18-3.img

( I've put in the \ to denote a single line. )

Scott

Ed Hill wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-06-05 at 09:51, Glenn Murray wrote:
> 
>>On 2 Jun 2002, Hugh Brown wrote:
>>
>>
>>>In the past, it has been my experience that windows on /dev/hda and
>>>linux on /dev/hdb will not work with lilo.  We always had to use a boot
>>>floppy.  Lilo wanted to have a /boot partition on /dev/hda.
>>>
>>>I don't know what grub is capable of in that regard.  IIRC, grub claims
>>>not to be stuck with the limitations that lilo has, whatever that means.
>>
> 
> 
> I'm dual-booting a few machines with RH 7.2/7.3 and either W2K or
> WinXP.  One of them has multiple hard disks with different OSes on
> each.  On all of them, I'm using grub and it works great.  I think grub
> is *much* nicer than Lilo in many respects (eg. config editing, no
> 1024-cyl limitation) and I highly recommend it.
> 
> hth,
> Ed
> 
>