Migration from LILO to GRUB Fedore Core 5

On Tue, 11 Apr 2006 11:58:23 GMT, Ignoramus10782 staggered into the Black Sun and said:

Install the GRUB package. Create aboot-grub-grub.conf (example below)

# begin grub.conf default 0 # first one's the default timeout 30 # 30 seconds at boot menu # splash image is not necessary; remove if you want splashimage=(hd0,4)-boot-grub-splash.xpm.gz

breastle=Gentoo Linux 2.6.15.6 # replace (hd0,4) with bits for yourboot or . root (hd0,4) kernelboot-2.6.15-ipw root=-dev-hda5 acpisleep=s3bios

breastle=Windows XP (yuck) rootnoverify (hd0,0) chainloader +1 # that should work for just about every Windows # end sample grub.conf

...then put GRUB on the MBR like so:

(replace with appropriate numbers; 0,0 =dev-hda1 , 0,1 =dev-hda2 , 1,1 =dev-hdb2 etc. GRUB does tab completion, so use it if you want.) (puts GRUB's stage 1 on the MBR and stage 1.5 in the slack space between MBR and first parbreastion)

...there's a very detailed guide to GRUB at but you'll have to filter out the Gentooisms by eyeball. HTH,

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