On Mon, Mar 22, 2004 at 08:18:19PM +0100, Niels L. Ellegaard wrote:
|
| I tried changing bootloader from lilo to grub, but I am stuck halfway
| in the process, and I am slightly afraid of rebooting. (BTW I am using
| debian testing). Here is what I did
|
| root:gnalle# apt-get install grub grub-doc
|
| root:gnalle# grub-install /dev/hda
| Probing devices to guess BIOS drives. This may take a long time.
| /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc does not have any correspondin
|
| root:gnalle# update-grub
| Searching for GRUB installation directory ... found: /boot/grub .
| /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part1 does not have any correspondi
Edit /boot/grub/device.map and change the line that says
(hd0) /dev/hda
to
(hd0) /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc
grub-install doesn't handle the devfs-style symlink naming as
gracefully as it ought.
| If I reboot now, will my lilo still be working
Probably.
| or will my system try
| to boot from a malfunctional grub?
Possibly, but I don't think it will.
| Where should I look to find out?
The screen, while you are trying to boot ;-).
Seriously, though, you should have a floppy disk or cd handy to boot
if necessary.
-D
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