[Novalug] Replacing Grub with LILO

[Roger W. Broseus]

Subbarao,

I had similar problems when I setup a triple boot system. The last distro
of linux that I installed "took over," i.e., wrote to the MBR and pointed
to the boot partition for the latest version, which also had the most
up-to-date menu.lst in /boot/grub. When I updated the older distro of
Linux, the kernel version changed and the info in the newer menu.lst was
wrong - hence the error upon booting. So, it may just be a job of finding
this new menu.lst and editing to point to the correct place. This can be
done after hand-feeding grub with edited commands - I think you get to
this with the Exc key.

How did I figure this out? With some reading, which was worth it, in
SuSE's admin guide (which is on-line) and the Grub how-to, followed by a
bit of piecing together of WHERE /boot was for each of the two Linux-es
and Winders. If you want pointer to these refs, let me know and I'll dig.
I elected to stick w/ grub 'cause it is better / more powerful - there is
a lot under the hood of this souped-up boot loader.

Good luck.
-- 
Roger W. Broseus

> I have installed Slackware and Fedora on a single partitioned disk.
> Fedora has replaced all other boot manager on the system, with grub.
>
> Grub starts FC6 and Windows (seperate disk) fine.  But when I select
> Slackware, grub gives the following message:
>
>      Error 13: Invalid or unsupported executable format
>
> I tinkered with the grub.conf file quite a bit but grub would not find
> Slackware.  I was beginning to lean towards learning grub.  How can I
> replace grub with LILO on FC6.  I am more comfortable with LILO than grub
> at this point.
>
> Subbarao
>
> PS - Is anyone have grub issues on a multi-boot system on a single large
> disk?
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