Installing Buffalo

James McGee · 10-01-2004, 07:53 AM

I installed Buffalo on my compaq laptop. The install went just fine as it was the only OS on the machine. I love the way it handles installing programs that I download, so much easier than SuSE. I like the way it looks at the desktop and look forward to learning more about it.

One problem I have with Buffalo, however, is lilo. I do not like lilo. When I tried to install it on my desktop which is running windows xp, lilo refuses to add windows to the boot menu. I had grub installed with SuSE so when I installed Buffalo I told the install program DO NOT INSTALL LILO, but it did anyway.

Is there a way to install Buffalo without lilo?

m00t00 · 10-01-2004, 08:02 AM

sure. Just download grub, compile, write your configuration file, then
grub-install /dev/hda

will do it

xperiment · 10-01-2004, 05:46 PM

If you can't figure GRUB out, there's a LOT of documentation online covering booting multiple OS' (including XP) with LILO. If you want I can post my (working) lilo.conf file from Slackware that lists Slack and XP. You might have to tweak it a little depending on your drive configuration but it's clean-cut and easy to understand.

James McGee · 10-03-2004, 01:23 PM

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Originally posted by xperiment
If you can't figure GRUB out, there's a LOT of documentation online covering booting multiple OS' (including XP) with LILO. If you want I can post my (working) lilo.conf file from Slackware that lists Slack and XP. You might have to tweak it a little depending on your drive configuration but it's clean-cut and easy to understand.

Please do, I would like to be able to use Buffalo on my desktop, but I can't ditch xp just yet and have to be able to boot it also. So far with 4 installs lilo has not once picked up xp...where as grub finds it everytime when installing SuSE.