how do i edit grub when I am logged in as SU???
I mean... what are the commands for editing any text???

I need to get back to an older kernal because I REALLY
messed up this one...
here is what I wrote to Xfree86 to see if they can help.
Maybe someone here can????

thanks

Hello,

I am new to Linux so this is a learning experience.



I am running RedHat 8.0 with all the updates on an AMD 1.2proc,

20gig Harddrive partitioned to run win2000/XP/ RedHat.

I wanted to install XF86 4.2.0 so I thought I read the instructions

Pretty good before installing anything but something happened.

First I ran the xinstall with the –check to see if I got any reports back…all was good.

Then I ran xinstall and followed the prompts going with yes on everything, rebooted and

Got a gray screen with a screen in the lower right corner looking for localhost@ yada yada yada

It just kept repeating it self.

So I hit CTRL ALT F1 bring up a CLI (after rebooting) and tried to startx…this is what I got.





Xlib: connection to :”0.0” refused by server

Xlib: Invalid Mit-Magic-cookie-1 key

Giving up

Xinit: unable to connect to server

Xinit: no such process (error 3):server error



I did make a back up of X11 directory but that about it,

Like I said, this is a learning experience for me so I hope you can

Help me out without much headach.



Thanks

you are in RH, ok. go to your xterm, SU, get into root mode, and then open gedit, which is a nice graphical editor, just by typing gedit. Then go to your /etc folder and edit grub.conf that's all your need to do. When you finish don't forget to save it, and then just reboot, no need to re-run it. good luck,

oh, btw, I once trying upgrading the xf86 server as well, and I also did follow the instructions step by step, everything seemed cool. I rebooted, and ran startx, the thing never worked properly...I ended up having to re-install the entire system again and I never bothered upgrading the server again...screw it. It is quite delicate and more than often doesn't work when you do it manually. Best bet would be upgrading it by installing newer version of redhat, but then again, RH 8.0 comes with th elatest versino of XF86 I think...and if it doesn't then you're just going to have to wait for them to put in it the update agent or wait for RH 8.1, , that is your safest bet.

editing grub did nothing so I am going to
reinstall RH and say screw it with the
Xfree86 shit...(untill I understand it more).

MY BIG question is:
Are there any steps to be taken with GRUB
before I reinstall, or just go ahead with it
and GRUB will overwrite itself??
Another words....When I use DISK DRUID,
should I just delete the partitions and reinstall
like I INSTALLED or do I have to FDISK /MBR
and hope like hell I dont screw up my WIN2000/XP
boot sequence.

many thanks to all that are helping me......

Yes it will...
You do that:
1. You don't need delete any parttion in DiskDruid, you select 'Format partition' using some FS
2. You install GRUB ( or LILO) directly in MBR!
3. Configure all you Systems right though the installation, I think it is not difficult. Just the select the partition >> Give it a name >> and setup some part to boot first.

Nothing should happen to you WinXP!
BTW When I had RH I have reinstalled 8 times, and it was ok.

Since I started using Linux, I probably have reinstalled a distribution on a single and same computer some good 7 to 10 times, hehe. So, don't feel bad at all if you reinstall many, many times, :-D

install went good....
doin all the updates now
thanks for all the help guys

grats,