FAQ: Configuring the Grub Bootloader

gordan · Joined: 16 Feb 2007 Posts: 12

Hello folks. I am very new to the Linux world. I have installed Fedora core with the Lilo boot loader. I think I had only that option when I was starting up the install. Anyway, I heard that Lilo is not good at all and because of that I want to make Grub, the other Boot Loader the default one. But I dont know how to set that up. And I think it is good to start to learn from the beginning. Thanks in advance.

jeramey · Joined: 20 Apr 2007 Posts: 4

Hello. This is how I changed the Grub Bootloader as default loader instead of Lilo, but I use Gentoo. Probably very similar, so you can try. First you are going to emerge the Grub loader by typing the exact command, than start configuring it. This means you first type emerge grub, than just grub to start with the config. Note that Grub uses the boot sector to place it self. This means Grub will go here - hd0,0 instead of /dev/hda1, thats how does grub see the partition table, which is pretty neat I think. After that, you can compare the already existing Lilo config file with the new made grub config file.

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FAQ: Configuring the Grub Bootloader

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