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<![CDATA[Linux-Noob Forums - Grub and Lilo]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/ Thu, 02 Jul 2026 13:19:52 +0000 MyBB <![CDATA[Fedora 9 / bootpart error]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-944.html Thu, 22 May 2008 11:00:49 +0200 nish_higher]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-944.html i installed fedora 9 on my system , chose the boot loader to install into first sector of boot partition (/) ,so i can use bootpart to use it..

now the problem is i cant configure how to set it up..

my drives are--

/ 13.54gb

and /home 9.77gb

swap is 2gb

i tried various settings but it didnt work..

here's bootpart screenie--

[Image: bootpartfp5.jpg]

]]> i installed fedora 9 on my system , chose the boot loader to install into first sector of boot partition (/) ,so i can use bootpart to use it..

now the problem is i cant configure how to set it up..

my drives are--

/ 13.54gb

and /home 9.77gb

swap is 2gb

i tried various settings but it didnt work..

here's bootpart screenie--

[Image: bootpartfp5.jpg]

]]> <![CDATA[LILO.conf bleep up]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1012.html Sat, 01 Mar 2008 17:24:27 +0100 Draven]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1012.html Okay I was playing and I screwed up bad, I try'd to dual boot BT3 and XP Pro on my Toshiba Notebook and now I have this error (Invalid Partition Table). I try'd to Redo the LILO.conf but get a read-only system returned. Please help I have been working on this for 3 1/2 days I'm stumped. Thanks for any help.

I was installing Backtrack 3 beta, I followed remote-exploit's walk through but it was for BT2I resized the HDD partition to allow 16Gb for BT3. To resize the partition I used Partition magic 8. I used this walk through www.offensive-security.com/documentation/backtrack-hd-install.pdf. I followed these instructions to a T except I had windows installed already so I changed hda1 to hda2, hda2 to hda3 and so on. And last I used the backtrack installer and left all option at default except mount point from hda1 to hda2. I followed these directions and then the system bricked on me, the only thing I found that I could done wrong is on the Install i did not uncheck the option that said "Restore original MBR after LILO"

If anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it.

Josh

]]> Okay I was playing and I screwed up bad, I try'd to dual boot BT3 and XP Pro on my Toshiba Notebook and now I have this error (Invalid Partition Table). I try'd to Redo the LILO.conf but get a read-only system returned. Please help I have been working on this for 3 1/2 days I'm stumped. Thanks for any help.

I was installing Backtrack 3 beta, I followed remote-exploit's walk through but it was for BT2I resized the HDD partition to allow 16Gb for BT3. To resize the partition I used Partition magic 8. I used this walk through www.offensive-security.com/documentation/backtrack-hd-install.pdf. I followed these instructions to a T except I had windows installed already so I changed hda1 to hda2, hda2 to hda3 and so on. And last I used the backtrack installer and left all option at default except mount point from hda1 to hda2. I followed these directions and then the system bricked on me, the only thing I found that I could done wrong is on the Install i did not uncheck the option that said "Restore original MBR after LILO"

If anyone can help I would greatly appreciate it.

Josh

]]> <![CDATA[Grub error 17]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1586.html Wed, 21 Feb 2007 21:56:39 +0100 sieggie]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1586.html OK this is a long story. I had originally installed Ubuntu on my computer to dueal boot with XP. Grub had worked fine until i got a new Sata HD. The other HD's had both been IDE one had windows on it the other had Ubuntu. When i plugged my Sata drive in I recived a Grub error (don't remember # this was about 2 months ago). I was able to boot into windows or linux when i unplugged the sata drive. When i booted into windows i had installed Acronis boot selector. This allowed me to use my sata drive at the cost of ubuntu. So now after a windows crash i decided to reinstall windows and then ubuntu on my Sata drive (I also uninstalled Acronis). They both are installed on 2 partitons on my sata drive. I now try to load into Grub and the menu loads however every option i choose for linux gives me Grub error 17 and Windows gives me NTDFS is missing.

I have gone looking for help and was told on the grub command line type:

Code:
root (hd2,1)
setup (hd0)

Code:
root (hd2,1)
setup (hd0)

the root command goes through however the setup command gives me error 17 again. I do not know what to do anymore that is the most information i am able to get on how to fix this problem. My Hd's are set up like this:

hd0 = hda

hd1 = hdb

hd2 = sda (2 partitions 1=windows, 2=ubuntu)

PLease if anyone can help it will be greatly appreciated. If you need anymore info just ask but please bear in mind i'm a really large linux noob so i need to know the commands to access most of the files. Thanks to anyone if they can help

]]> <![CDATA[Setting the default OS for GRUB boot]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1952.html Sun, 28 May 2006 23:19:23 +0200 eggnog]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1952.html I just installed suse 10.1

i already had xp installed

so now when i start up i get the grub boot loader with an option for both operating systems

currently i get about 10 seconds before it boots suse by default? how can i get it to boot xp as default?

thanks

]]> I just installed suse 10.1

i already had xp installed

so now when i start up i get the grub boot loader with an option for both operating systems

currently i get about 10 seconds before it boots suse by default? how can i get it to boot xp as default?

thanks

]]> <![CDATA[grub/lilo high-res text mode trick]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1967.html Thu, 18 May 2006 20:02:38 +0200 zepcom]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-1967.html Hi,

Not sure if this is useful to anyone, but I thought I'd post this here in case it is.

I do a lot of terminal line editing from the console of my workstation. Sometimes using text mode is faster and easier, instead of using the mouse to open up new terminal windows and position them easily.

If you don't know how to get to the text console on your Linux PC, hold down CTRL-ALT and hit one of the F1-F6 keys. These are virtual terminals that you can log in with your credentials and view or edit files, "quick and dirty" if you will.

I often find myself logging into the F1 terminal and running "top" to monitor my system's performance, then switching to the F2 terminal and starting a large file copy or something, then toggling back to the first one to monitor the increased load, etc.

the problem that I used to have was that in the standard low-resolution text mode that comes out of the box, if you are viewing or editing a large file, there is some needless scrolling; in other words, you can't see as much as if you were in the GUI and had maximized the terminal session window to see more text.

If you have a fairly modern video card, you can take advantage of a Vesa-VGA text high-res mode that is much better on the eyes than the 43x50 scrunched mode that sometimes comes up with high-res mode. This mode is actually a vga-complient mode, which equates to 1024x768 on your text console. Not all video cards support this, worst case senerio is that you just reboot and change the boot string back to what it was before and you'll be all set.

I'm using CentOS (a red-hat derivitive) but this should be portable to other linuxes as well. I think that SUSE linux 9 and 10 actually have this high-res text mode out of the box.

The solution: append to your grub.conf or lilo.conf file the string "vga=791" (without the quotes, of course).

If you have grub, it might look like the following:

Code:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#		  all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#		  root (hd0,0)
#		  kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda2
#		  initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title CentOS-4 i386 (2.6.9-34.ELsmp)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/ vga=791
	initrd /initrd-2.6.9-34.ELsmp.img
title CentOS-4 i386-up (2.6.9-34.EL)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.EL ro root=LABEL=/
	initrd /initrd-2.6.9-34.EL.img

Notice above my entry for "CentOS-4 i386" ... the line starting with "kernel" is the line that you append the vga=791 entry to.

Lilo configuration would be similar; you just find your kernel that you use, and edit the "append=" line, as follows:

Code:
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=menu
vga=791
default="linux-enterpris"
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
	label="linux"
	root=/dev/sda1
	initrd=/boot/initrd.img
	append="devfs=mount acpi=off vga=791"
	read-only

Again, in the above example, for my kernel named "linux", I've appended to the line that starts with append=.

With grub, save the file and then reboot your machine to try it. With lilo, one more step involved... run "lilo" as root or "sudo lilo" as yourself if you've set it up to update the lilo boot loader. Then reboot your machine and try it.

## o_O be careful o_O ## - if you modify anything else in the grub or lilo config files without knowing what you're doing, you could render your machine unable to boot. appending this line to your kernel boot parameters will not cause problems, but don't tell me I didn't warn you! Your flavor of Linux may be different... so be sure to create a boot disk before hand to ensure that this doesn't wack your system!!

CONCLUSION: After a reboot, if your video card supports it (sometimes an onboard video with only 1mb of ram would fail this mode, in which you would just have the same low-res mode that you had before trying this trick) you will be able to do the CTRL-ALT-F1 and see text in high-res. Go ahead and log-in, and edit a larger file and see how you can see more on the screen, but not be burdoned by the mouse in a GUI for a quick fix here and there. Good luck!! Smile

Regards,

--zepcom

]]> Hi,

Not sure if this is useful to anyone, but I thought I'd post this here in case it is.

I do a lot of terminal line editing from the console of my workstation. Sometimes using text mode is faster and easier, instead of using the mouse to open up new terminal windows and position them easily.

If you don't know how to get to the text console on your Linux PC, hold down CTRL-ALT and hit one of the F1-F6 keys. These are virtual terminals that you can log in with your credentials and view or edit files, "quick and dirty" if you will.

I often find myself logging into the F1 terminal and running "top" to monitor my system's performance, then switching to the F2 terminal and starting a large file copy or something, then toggling back to the first one to monitor the increased load, etc.

the problem that I used to have was that in the standard low-resolution text mode that comes out of the box, if you are viewing or editing a large file, there is some needless scrolling; in other words, you can't see as much as if you were in the GUI and had maximized the terminal session window to see more text.

If you have a fairly modern video card, you can take advantage of a Vesa-VGA text high-res mode that is much better on the eyes than the 43x50 scrunched mode that sometimes comes up with high-res mode. This mode is actually a vga-complient mode, which equates to 1024x768 on your text console. Not all video cards support this, worst case senerio is that you just reboot and change the boot string back to what it was before and you'll be all set.

I'm using CentOS (a red-hat derivitive) but this should be portable to other linuxes as well. I think that SUSE linux 9 and 10 actually have this high-res text mode out of the box.

The solution: append to your grub.conf or lilo.conf file the string "vga=791" (without the quotes, of course).

If you have grub, it might look like the following:

Code:
# grub.conf generated by anaconda
#
# Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
# NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
#		  all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
#		  root (hd0,0)
#		  kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda2
#		  initrd /initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title CentOS-4 i386 (2.6.9-34.ELsmp)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.ELsmp ro root=LABEL=/ vga=791
	initrd /initrd-2.6.9-34.ELsmp.img
title CentOS-4 i386-up (2.6.9-34.EL)
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.9-34.EL ro root=LABEL=/
	initrd /initrd-2.6.9-34.EL.img

Code:
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=menu
vga=791
default="linux-enterpris"
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
	label="linux"
	root=/dev/sda1
	initrd=/boot/initrd.img
	append="devfs=mount acpi=off vga=791"
	read-only

Regards,

--zepcom

]]> <![CDATA[changed distros now getting Grub error 17]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-2015.html Wed, 26 Apr 2006 06:49:20 +0200 ron]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-2015.html ]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Clueless in Grub]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-2038.html Fri, 07 Apr 2006 21:17:40 +0200 gobblox]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-2038.html I Installed Fedora Core 1, and when it asked me what other os's i wanted in the GRUB list at start up.

For reasons not completely clear to me, i just put Fedora on there, which boots fine. Now how do i get my windows xp on the list?

]]> I Installed Fedora Core 1, and when it asked me what other os's i wanted in the GRUB list at start up.

For reasons not completely clear to me, i just put Fedora on there, which boots fine. Now how do i get my windows xp on the list?

]]> <![CDATA[Getting rid of GRUB]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-2046.html Mon, 03 Apr 2006 19:46:19 +0200 alive.in.an.ultra.world]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-2046.html Hi

I fully installed Ubuntu Breezy onto my computer as my Windows ME seemed to fail on me. I tried to work in Ubuntu but found it to difficult and I stumbled across the Recovery Disk and Master Disks to restore my system back to ME. I ran these disks and after the remastering has finished.. upon loading the hard drive.. i get GRUB trying to load up. I get about 2 minutes of "GRUB GRUB" running down my screen and then eventually "GRUB FAILED". Does anyone know how to get rid of the grub system. I have tried formatting my hard drive via the Restore disk and then ran the remastering but found the same problems.

At the moment I have a very nice empty box of a computer... please help me get back to the dreary Windows Millenium Edition days.

Bruce

]]> Hi

I fully installed Ubuntu Breezy onto my computer as my Windows ME seemed to fail on me. I tried to work in Ubuntu but found it to difficult and I stumbled across the Recovery Disk and Master Disks to restore my system back to ME. I ran these disks and after the remastering has finished.. upon loading the hard drive.. i get GRUB trying to load up. I get about 2 minutes of "GRUB GRUB" running down my screen and then eventually "GRUB FAILED". Does anyone know how to get rid of the grub system. I have tried formatting my hard drive via the Restore disk and then ran the remastering but found the same problems.

At the moment I have a very nice empty box of a computer... please help me get back to the dreary Windows Millenium Edition days.

Bruce

]]> <![CDATA[Installing LILO]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-3147.html Sun, 26 Sep 2004 07:02:15 +0200 Guest]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-3147.html ]]> ]]> <![CDATA[Grub problems]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-3522.html Wed, 24 Mar 2004 21:19:22 +0100 fkarlsen]]> https://www.linux-noob.com/forums/thread-3522.html Hi, I'm having some problems loading Win XP from Grub...

My grub.conf states this:

title WinXP

rootnoverify (hd1,0)

chainloader +1

My winxp installation lies in the hdc1 drive and my fedora install in hdb(hdb1=/boot, hdb2=, hdb3=/swap)

Anyone know why my xp install wont boot from grub?

best regards

fkarlsen

]]> Hi, I'm having some problems loading Win XP from Grub...

My grub.conf states this:

title WinXP

rootnoverify (hd1,0)

chainloader +1

My winxp installation lies in the hdc1 drive and my fedora install in hdb(hdb1=/boot, hdb2=, hdb3=/swap)

Anyone know why my xp install wont boot from grub?

best regards

fkarlsen

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