GRUB to LILO on FC2
 

How can I delete GRUB and install LILO on Fedora Core 2?
I don't want to mess with it, unless I know what I'm doing, since i want to use my machine in the future :D

I'm very-very newbie, so please write it down step-by-step.
thx

:Pengy:

Is there any special reason why you wanna move to LILO? My personal opinion is that stay with GRUB as it is more powerful and flexible compared to GRUB.

hi
boot into rescue mode with ur 1st CD
#chroot mnt/sysimage
#vi /etc/lilo.conf.anaconda
edit it accordingly
save it to /etc/lilo.conf

run
#lilo

u r done with lilo

if this dos not work out then to reinstall grub run the following in rescue mode

#grub-install /dev/hda

regards

actually, i only want to use the animated boot screens on http://www.gamers.org/~quinet/lilo (bit childish, huh?:))

What do you think? Is it too risky, to install LILO?
Can I ruin my system?

masand: how can I edit lilo.conf accordingly?
maybe a silly question but I'm a :newbie:

hi
by editing ur lilo.conf, meant to say that u can see if all the entries in ur lilo.conf are correct
with respect to grub.conf

so u need to compare ur grub.conf with lilo.conf
if u cannot get this working then post ur both grub.conf and lilo.conf.anaconda here

regards
gauarv

I have a boot partition. That's hda1.
So in lilo.conf should be boot=/dev/hda1?
In grub.conf the boot section is commented (#)
and root (hd0, 0)
So hd0 means hda, and (hd0, 0) means hda1?


When I try to run lilo, sh says there are no such command 'lilo'.
Where is the command?

thx for the help

hi
u might not have to change lilo.conf much since lilo.conf.anaconda is generated by anaconda
u just need to save it as lilo.conf
and when u run lilo in recue mode
do u do the following
before 'lilo'
#chroot /mnt/sysimage

regards

hi

I've done this, and it works, but it siill can't find command lilo.
It is possible, that it isn't installed?
Where can I find it?
Download it from the internet?

thx :D

hi
try "/sbin/lilo"

if it does not works
install lilo rpm from ur FEDORA cd

regards

Thx for the help, it works. I was too lazy to find it on my CDs, so I downloaded it from an FC2 FTP site :D

Then i made lilo under KDE.

Thx again :D

hi

nice that it worked for u
but i would recommend u to always use the ones provided with the CD, because somtimes u ,may get some applications have problems with other applications or requiring different versions of other applications installed

if u go for kde applications that depend on qt specific version and above

regards

:D

The lilo I downloaded, was an older version, wich does'nt support animated boot screens.

For those, i have to use a patched version of lilo, wich is only available for SuSE. So I had to insall the SuSE version. Since lilo is loaded first in the boot sequence, it should be compatible with all distributions, sholdn't it?

I rather like rpms designed for FC2 of course, but I can't find them always. Then I have to use rpms for other distributions, and cross my fingers :D

hi
yes lilo is compatible for all types of linux distributions.

for ur animated boot screen problem , u should be using lilo with the FC2 CD

yes it is there

lilo-21.4.4-25.1.i386

in the 3rd cd of FC2
regards
gaurav

lilo-21.4.4-25.1.i386 is the same version, that I downloaded. It does'nt support animated boot screens.

I downloaded lilo-21.7.5-54.i386 from the SuSE FTP site. It' works perfectly.
Thx for the help!!

It's a great thing, that there are forums, like this, wich make linux less scary for newbies/windoze-users.

and people like you, who spend time to help the poor newbies :D :D

Thx again!

:D