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Re: switching between lilo and grub
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Marco Gerards |
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Re: switching between lilo and grub |
Date: |
14 Oct 2003 23:51:55 +0200 |
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"Aaron P. Martinez" <address@hidden> writes:
> On Tue, 2003-10-14 at 15:16, Marco Gerards wrote:
> > "Aaron P. Martinez" <address@hidden> writes:
> >
> > [...]
> >
> > > Next i used 'kernel /vmlinuz' and it recognized my kernel and then i
> > > typed 'boot' but it kernel panicked saying it couldn't mount root fs on
> > > 48:05. I'm pretty lost and was under the impression that this would be
> > > quite easy. I could leave the system as a lilo system, but i prefer the
> > > grub bootloader. Can anyone offer some advice?
> >
> > You need to tell the kernel the device name of the root device,
> > something like:
> >
> > kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1
> I need to do this when i'm put back at the grub prompt? So there isn't
> any easy way, when i have the machine booted up under lilo, to tell it
> to use grub again, reboot and have things back the way they were
> originally?
Did I misunderstand your mail? You only get a bootprompt but no menu,
right?
In that case you need to put your menu.lst back in /boot/grub.
The kernel line I was talking about should be used instead of the one
you tried. If that doesn't help you try loading an initrd too.
> > Perhaps you also have to load an initial ramdisk, that depends on the
> > GNU/Linux distribution you are using.
>
> Sorry, i fogot that info. I'm running, for my test, RH 2.1 ES, i will
> be doing this procedure on a RH 8.0 machine.
IIRC you need an initrd for booting redhat.
--
Marco