By default Debian install Lilo on i386 arch. I really like lilo, but after a couple of broken config file and severall other hitch. I decided to install grub. Grub is a bit hard if you never install it before. But mainly because the apt-get install grub doesn’t install a default file. So
apt-get install grub grub-install /dev/hdXX #where to put the bootloader
Now you can reboot. But to have a nice menu edit a file /boot/grub/menu.lst like that:
default=0 timeout=5 boot=/dev/hda title Linux-2.6.7 root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7 root=/dev/hda2 vga=791 ro title Debian-2.4 root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.26-1-686-smp ro root=/dev/hda2 initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.4.26-1-686-smp title Memtest root (hd0,1) kernel /boot/memtest86+.bin
Note: My boot is hda2 (hd0,1) second partition of the first disk
Pour avoir le clavier en FR au boot rajouter les lignes suivantes dans le menu.lst
# Emulation d’un clavier azerty_FR
setkey less backquote
setkey greater tilde
setkey ampersand 1
setkey 1 exclam
setkey tilde 2
setkey 2 at
setkey doublequote 3
setkey 3 numbersign
setkey quote 4
setkey 4 dollar
setkey parenleft 5
setkey 5 percent
setkey minus 6
setkey 6 caret
setkey backquote 7
setkey 7 ampersand
setkey underscore 8
setkey 8 asterisk
setkey backslash 9
setkey 9 parenleft
setkey at 0
setkey 0 parenright
setkey parenright minus
setkey numbersign underscore
setkey a q
setkey A Q
setkey z w
setkey Z W
setkey caret bracketleft
setkey dollar bracketright
setkey q a
setkey Q A
setkey m semicolon
setkey M colon
setkey bracketleft quote
setkey percent doublequote
setkey asterisk backslash
setkey bracketright bar
setkey w z
setkey W Z
setkey comma m
setkey question M
setkey semicolon comma
setkey period less
setkey colon period
setkey slash greater
setkey exclam slash
setkey bar question
Debian includes the update-grub program which manager menu.lst and add new entries
grubconf is a nice Gtk GUI too :)
..sure!
upgrade-grub work fine!..
this was my way:
apt-get install grub
grub-install /dev/hdaXX
update-grub
apt-get remove –purge lilo
shutdown -r now
and the box was rebooting fine with grub!
all via ssh
enjoy linux
Did anyone try this on IBM ThinkPad T23? Lilo 22.6 from Testing is crashing and GRUB can’t find the init…
thanx -> mail.