GRUB for slack

Pauli · 03-14-2004, 05:08 PM

I am thinking of dual booting with slack now that my FC1 is gone, but I dont like the lilo booter. Is there any way I could get grub boot loader for Slack and Windows? Because it looks real pretty and with FC1 I didnt have to do anyting, and it detected windows and fc1 and worked fine. Or maybe there is another loader I could use?

XavierP · 03-14-2004, 05:17 PM

Grub can be downloaded and installed - you can get the program from http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/grub/ and the instructions from http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/ (it's now a GNU project).

The FC1 bootloader is a customised gui from RedHat - you will probably have a fair bit of work to do to match it.

Incidentally, I feel the same way about Lilo and when I have more time will try an install of Grub - tried it briefly tonight and I couldn't work it out!

Pauli · 03-14-2004, 05:28 PM

Hmm. Do you know where there is a st00pid n00b13 how to for grub?

I really dont want lilo at all, if it buggers with my MBR i dont like it. I know grub will, but grub worked once for me, so I trust it. I hate messing with my mbr, uninstalling grub messed up my mbr and I lost about 30 gigs of music. But while I had it, it worked great.

XavierP · 03-14-2004, 05:35 PM

The install loks pretty straightforward, but you do need to read the instructions. Even if your mbr is messed up, it can be fixed very easily - simply rerun your install disk and run pkgtool and reinstall lilo - takes minutes. That is, if you are using Slackware.

newinlinux · 03-14-2004, 06:17 PM

hosing the mbr doesnt equate to losing your files. Not sure why your lost your mp3 because of a screwed mbr.

Pauli · 03-14-2004, 07:08 PM

long story short.

Slave drive with music.

Rewrote MBR with win xp pro and buggered about with booting things.

It made my slave hidden and with a wacky disc geometry AND with and extra OPUS type partition. Now it isnt detected with xp and I cant copy files from it.