need help - how to do between lilo and grup

[gameslover987 at yahoo.com (Dava Peters)]

Thanks. I'll try.

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--- Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org> wrote:
> On Wed, 21 Jul 2004 08:28:24 -0700 (PDT)
> Dava Peters <gameslover987 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > Hi all,
> > 
> > I have Redhat 7.1 system and try to install Redhat
> ES
> > 3.0.
> > My question is how can I run lilo and grup at the
> same
> > time? or How can I switch between 7.1 and ES 3.0?
> I
> > don't know how lilo and grup can work together.
> > Does anyone with experience with this.
> You cannot run LILO and GRUB on the same system.
> GRUB will work fine
> with RH 7.1 in a dual boot situation even though 7.1
> does not contain
> GRUB. 
> 
> the real advantage of GRUB is that it is a 2 stage
> boot such that it
> only needs to know where it's stage2 boot is. Once
> stage2 is running, it
> can point to any kernel at boot time, where LILO
> must know before boot
> where the running kernels are.  
> 
> Once you have installed GRUB as part of the ES
> install, you might have
> the following configuration:
> /dev/hda1 RH 7.1 /boot
> /dev/hda5 RH 7.1 /
> /dev/hda6 ES /boot
> /dev/hda7 ES /
> 
> GRUB would be installed in the ES /boot directory. I
> usually do not make
> /boot as a separate partition, but it does not
> matter. GRUB stage 2
> would be included in /dev/hda6 under /boot/grub.
> 
> Once ES is installed, then you might add the
> folowing line to
> /boot/grub/menu.lst:
> title RH71
>     kernel (hd0,0)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 <any
> other options>
>     initrd (hd0,0)/boot/initrd
> 
> The hd parameter is zero based such that hda is hd0,
> and partition 1 is
> also 0.
> 
> I generally do this when I install a new version of
> Linux on an
> additional drive. I am not familiar with the ES
> installer as to whether
> it gives you the ability to point to other systems. 
> 
> 
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> Jerry Feldman <gaf at blu.org>
> Boston Linux and Unix user group
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