sjaglin Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Hi ! I am a bit dumb when it comes to Lilo and Grub so I thought I'd start a little thread whee one can show there Lilo or there Grub and decribe the advantages or problems. I hope to learn as I play ... Well here's mine the : Quite classic I think, it boots very well but if I boot cooker for example and I choose "reboot as" option, it shows the options of the lilo on sda7 , not the original lilo I booted with. # File generated by DrakX/drakboot # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file default="MdvClean-2612-18" boot=/dev/sda map=/boot/map keytable=/boot/uk.klt menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message disk=/dev/sda bios=0x80 image=/boot/vmlinuz label="failsafe" root=/dev/sda6 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="noapic failsafe resume=/dev/sda5" other=/dev/hda1 label="windows" table=/dev/hda map-drive=0x80 to=0x81 map-drive=0x81 to=0x80 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-18mdk label="MdvClean-2612-18" root=/dev/sda6 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.12-18mdk.img append="noapic resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent" vga=788 image=/mnt/sda7/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-2mdk label="Cooker" root=/dev/sda7 initrd=/mnt/sda7/boot/initrd-2.6.14-2mdk.img append="noapic resume=/dev/sda5 splash=silent" vga=788 There we are, now i will wait to see yours! Stef :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 What is LILO? :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaglin Posted April 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Oh sorry , there is a grub option as well for the mighty ones... ;) Stef Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 My grub config: timeout 5 default 0 color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue title Arch Linux root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz26 root=/dev/hda2 ro vga=773 initrd /boot/initrd26.img title Microsoft Windows XP Professional rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 nice and simple :P And my Mandriva 2006 grub config: timeout 5 color black/cyan yellow/cyan shade 1 viewport 3 2 77 22 splashimage (hd0,1)/boot/grub/mdv-grub_splash.xpm.gz default 0 title linux kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 resume=/dev/sda1 splash=silent vga=773 initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img title linux-nonfb kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 resume=/dev/sda1 initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img title failsafe kernel (hd0,1)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/sda2 failsafe resume=/dev/sda1 initrd (hd0,1)/boot/initrd.img few more options. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 (edited) Mine is pretty boring, as the machine is single boot, single Linux OS, and no framebuffer used (cause it doesn't work with my video card)... Here's the menu.lst, anyway: # general configuration: timeout 20 default 2 color light-blue/black light-cyan/blue # boot sections follow # (0) Arch 2.6.16 title Arch 2.6.16 root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz26 root=/dev/sda5 ro initrd /initrd26.img # (1) ArchCK 2.6.15 title ArchCK 2.6.15 root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz26archck root=/dev/sda5 ro initrd /initramfs-2.6.15-archck.img # (2) Arch 2.6.16 Beyond title Arch 2.6.16 Beyond root (hd0,0) kernel /vmlinuz26beyond root=/dev/sda5 ro initrd /initramfs-beyond.img It's readily apparent that 1. it's not Mandriva, and 2. I use a separate /boot partition at (hd0,0). Edited April 7, 2006 by scarecrow Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ffi Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 (edited) Here's mine, not very prety but at least it boots, cause everytime I install a new kernel things get messed up and the XP and Ubuntu sections are deleted and I still like to get nice graphical bootscreens running @1280x1024 but have no idea how this is done. timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan shade 1 viewport 3 2 77 22 splashimage (hd1,2)/boot/grub/mdv-grub_splash.xpm.gz default 0 title linux kernel (hd1,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 splash=silent vga=794 initrd (hd1,2)/boot/initrd.img title linux-nonfb kernel (hd1,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 initrd (hd1,2)/boot/initrd.img title failsafe kernel (hd1,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 failsafe initrd (hd1,2)/boot/initrd.img title multimedia 4GB 2.6.14.7 kernel (hd1,2)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.14-0.mm.7mdk-i686-up-4GB root=/dev/hda3 splash=silent vga=794 initrd (hd1,2)/boot/initrd-2.6.14-0.mm.7mdk-i686-up-4GB.img title 2.6.16-rc6.14 kernel (hd1,2)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.16-rc6.14mdk root=/dev/hda3 splash=silent vga=794 initrd (hd1,2)/boot/initrd-2.6.16-rc6.14mdk.img title linux-i686-up-4GB kernel (hd1,2)/boot/vmlinuz-i686-up-4GB root=/dev/hda3 splash=silent vga=794 initrd (hd1,2)/boot/initrd-i686-up-4GB.img title Windows XP root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-20-686 kernel (hd1,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-20-686 root=/dev/hda2 initrd (hd1,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-20-686 boot title Ubuntu, kernel 2.6.15-20-686 (recovery mode) kernel (hd1,1)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.15-20-686 root=/dev/hda2 ro single initrd (hd1,1)/boot/initrd.img-2.6.15-20-686 boot Edited April 7, 2006 by ffi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaglin Posted April 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 So really I am the only one to use Lilo, I only chose it because it was the defauls option, is Grug really better then? Stef Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 I have LILO on my home machines, I usually use LILO with Mandriva, but changed for my install at work. It's OK, you can make changes, and not have to reinstall to the MBR like you have to do with LILO. There are other features too, but I don't use it for advanced functionality. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 So really I am the only one to use Lilo, I only chose it because it was the defauls option, is Grug really better then? I also used lilo for some time, but I soon realized that grub is way more powerful and flexible than lilo. Lilo is a nice bootloader and useful if you have only one distro on your box (configuring multiple distros with lilo is imho unnecessarily complicated), but for multi-boot machines, grub is way easier to maintain. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Talk about simple. This is my lilo entry for gentoo image=/mnt/gentoo/boot/bzImage label=Gentoo root=/dev/hda7 append="Gentoo=nodevfs" read-only My Mandriva portion of lilo is the standard one which IMO is way too complicated. I've never understood why they did it that way. Plus I have to run lilo in Mandrake because with my last install Mandrake freaked out when I did it in Gentoo even tho I used Mandrake's default. :huh: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjaglin Posted April 7, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 I suppose that all I have to do is go in drakconf/bootloader et point to Grub, will he translate my current lilo into Grub? Well let's try! :o :o :o :o :o Fine it worked very easily, have to try and improve the looks though, It s quite poor so far! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ianw1974 Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Yes, grub doesn't look that great in Mandriva. Is really nice in Red Hat/Gentoo. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arctic Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Imho the grpahical grub they have is absolutely okay. But I am boring anyway. :P Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted April 7, 2006 Report Share Posted April 7, 2006 Yes, grub doesn't look that great in Mandriva. Is really nice in Red Hat/Gentoo. Just look how Georg has tweaked Grub in Kanotix... it is as sexy aas a bootloader can be! :P Graphical timer, custom grub screen, great framebuffer looks after booting... But honestly i do not get WHY a bootloader (which I see every time I install a new kernel i my box) has to look sexy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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