I had RedHat 7.1 installed and I upgraded to 7.2. During the installation I was asked if I wanted to change the bootloader to GRUB but I decided to leave it booting how it was before.

Anyway now there is no bootloader and I have to use a startup disk!

So I threw the installation CD back in and tried to install again but it took ages and then said that 'cos I wasn't making enough kernel changes it wasn't going to bother changing the bootloader!!!!

How can I force it to install GRUB?

Will inserting a SCSI card and CDR cause enough kernel changes for the install to work?

Am I missing something obvious?

Thanks,

Tim

If you can actually load your RH system (even if you do have to resort to using a boot-floppy), then do so. Insert the install CD and mount it. Browse around (or use a file-search util) and find anything that related to GRUB. Probably comes in RPM format, although there might be the source code there aswell. Install it, read the man files, the readme files, any other docs you can find relating to actually using GRUB and create your own grub.conf file. Then I believe that you only need to run grub from the command line to get it working. You may even be lucky enough to have a copy of grub.conf on your boot-floppy, in which case, you're laughing! I prefer to use Lilo, myself, as it follows the Linux naming system (i.e. 1st IDE harddisk, 1st partition = /dev/hda1) rather than having to learn another system aswell. It's actually very good.

Thanks very much - I shall play tonight!

I may use LILO myself. I've not seen GRUB and so have no favourites yet.

Tim