Re: Post Installation of a booter
On Fri, Aug 24, 2001 at 07:46:32PM -0400, alex wrote:
| I plan to install 4 Linux systems but don't want to install a boot
| loader (LILO or GRUB) with any of the systems but instead rely on boot
| floppies because I always had reliable performance with floppies in the
| past. However, LILO or GRUB is more convenient and faster so I would
| like to at least give them a try.
|
| How can LILO or GRUB be installed after the Linux systems have been
| installed and working? I couldn't find any info about
Yes. This is how I have always installed GRUB. Make a floppy (quite
easy, I can give instructions if you want) and boot it. Then run the
"setup" command at the GRUB shell.
| installing them after the systems are installed. How would you create a
| menu to include all 4 Linux systems plus Windows?
My editing the /boot/grub/menu.lst file to have the entries you want
:-).
| And, in the event I decide to remove the boot loader later, how can this
| be done safely?
What does it mean to "remove" a boot loader? What do you want to have
on the MBR after the boot loader is "removed"? Most people just
overwrite the MBR with the new bootloader they want (or stick the
floppy in and the BIOS won't look at the MBR).
HTH,
-D
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