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Re: /boot



:: CHEONG, Shu Yang [Patrick] writes:

> I have read somewhere on the Net that the newer lilo can now handle beyond
> the 1024 cyclinder barrier....can anyone confirm this to be true...

Yes. Just run it with the -L option.

> A question tha I have:-

> I noticed that grub comes on the 2.2 cds....after I dpkg -i...how do I
> remove lilo and configure and use grub instead to boot my linux box....which
> have all but /boot running reiserfs....

I believe "info grub" will tell you that ("Installation"). You can
either make a grub boot floppy or install it on your hard disk. I
don't remember exactly what I did, but I remember it was quite simple.

The HTML documentation is also very helpful.

J.

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Jeronimo Pellegrini
Institute of Computing - Unicamp - Brazil
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