[plug] Debian stable

[Denis Brown]

Dear James,

I'll defer to more knowledgeable comment* but in the meantime...   GRUB 
maintains a configuration file along the same lines as LILO's.   GRUB's 
configuration appears to exist in a menu.lst file in the boot 
directory.  The entries in this file appear similar to those in lilo.conf, 
in that you have multiple sections, one per OS or OS version, each one 
having a title that appears in the boot-time menu.  There are sufficient 
differences however, that the two do not appear to be  drop-in replacements 
for one another.

I'm starting to browse through http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ for 
reasons that I'll eventually want to boot several operating systems.   A 
useful reference point seems to be http://www.gnu.org/manual/grub/

HTH,
Denis

* Up to now I've been using LILO for selective boot.  Discussion on this 
list over time indicates that GRUB is more versatile and as my needs will 
soon mandate the use of several OSs for work purposes, I am starting to 
investigate GRUB for myself.  Early days yet :-)



At 08:14 19/08/2002 +0800, James wrote:
>Hi all
>
>I have two HDD's, one with Windows which I need for work some of the time,
>and the other had Red Hat 7.3 on it.  The Boot controller is Grub.
>
>I have repartitioned the Linux disk and installed the latest Debian (1.3.7
>I think).
>
>Grub still gives a choice of Windows 98 or Red Hat 7.3.   If you choose
>Windows it proceeds without any problem, but choosing Red Hat causes kernel
>panic, obviously  To fire up Debian I have to boot from a floppy disk
>(Debian boot disk).