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

Michael D. Hirsch mhirsch at nubridges.com
Wed Jun 5 11:43:05 MDT 2002


On Wednesday 05 June 2002 01:17 pm, Scott A. Herod wrote:
> 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 don't think you even need the "append=".  Just stick the options on the line 
without any quotes or anything.

--Michael





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