[plug] boot loaders

Richard Meyer meyerri at westnet.com.au
Wed Apr 19 22:55:18 WST 2006


On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 22:28 +0800, Craig Dyke wrote:
> okay so this is gonna be like a real noob question but I am gonna ask 
> anyway.
> 
> I am currently using Lilo to boot my dual XP / Linux system (all good so 
> far)
> 
> I recently went through the pain staking process of looking into LFS.
> 
> As this uses Grub I installed it in the boot sector of the drive it is 
> on (yes two drives)
> 
> My question is, as Lilo is my main loader, can I tell it to look at the 
> boot sector of the
> other drive and then have Grub come up and tell me what it can start?
> 
> The reason for this inane idea is because my main system has a few 
> wrinkles when it comes to Grub
> and I have not successfully used it as such so have stuck with Lilo.
> 
> Advice appreciated. Some criticism expected.
> 
> Craig

Yes, try pointing to the Grub booter as you would to a Windows
partition.

Sorry - it's late here - and I have a 6.00am meeting. 
Shout if that doesn't help


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Richard Meyer <meyerri at westnet.com.au>




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