From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: pa3gcu Subject: Re: grub doesn't load Date: Sun, 20 Jun 2004 21:47:49 +0200 Sender: linux-newbie-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <200406202147.50079.pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl> References: <851bbd852696.852696851bbd@homemail.nyu.edu> <20040620152104.GA594@lnx2.w8mch.ampr.org> Reply-To: pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20040620152104.GA594@lnx2.w8mch.ampr.org> Content-Disposition: inline List-Id: Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" To: haltec@kvinet.com Cc: linux-newbie@vger.kernel.org On Sunday 20 June 2004 17:21, Hal MacArgle wrote: > Did you change /boot/grub/menu.lst?? Maybe your lashup doesn't use > that file? Also, read somewhere, that WinXP does some strange things > to the MBR, etc.. Don't know what, etc.. If a linux bootloader is installed then AFAIK no version of dos or wind= ows has=20 anything to do with the MBR. > I do have two machines booting with Grub, several versions of > Slackware 9.X as default, or selected, and Win9X as a selection > partition.. It does work well for us... HTH. May i ask the following, how did you get a slackware distribution with = grub,?=20 if i remember correctly Patrick Volkerding once said, lilo is and will = be my=20 choice of bootloader for slackware, i know for a fact that slackware in= stalls=20 lilo by default so i imagen you must have installed grub yourself, may = i ask=20 why.? > > =A0 =A0 Hal - in Terra Alta, WV - Slackware GNU/Linux 9.0 =A0 (2.4.20= ) > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 > =A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0 =A0 =A0 Anyone can pile complexity upon comp= lexity; > =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 =A0 only a genius can truly simplify.= =2E According to your sig, then you would use lilo as it is in complexity m= ore=20 simple than grub. --=20 If the Linux community is a bunch of thieves because they try to imitate windows programs, then the Windows community is built on organized crime. Regards Richard pa3gcu@zeelandnet.nl http://people.zeelandnet.nl/pa3gcu/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-newbie"= in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.linux-learn.org/faqs