replace lilo with grub

[strudl]

Can anyone please tell me how to replace my boot up from lilo to grub
without screwing up anything else ?

[saikee]

I have toyed with this idea too but after working with 7 Lilos and 9 Grubs I couldn't anything wrong with it. It is just as easy as Grub as long as you remember to issue "lilo" every time you change its files. If one can cope with one the other isn't much different.

Lilo is marginally more work but it has its good points. For example it checks every entry in the boot file lilo.conf and tells you anything that doesn't work. Grub on the other hand can be fooled into booting a partition that is empty.

I think to add tha Grub module that isn't packaged with a Linux involves more work than knowing the difference between Lilo and Grub, assuming one feels comfortable with Grub to start with.

[strudl]

It does not answer my question

[hard candy]

You would download the grub package, if needed, install it, and then run
"grub-install /dev/hda" (the MBR of the first disk) It will overwrite any other bootloader present on the MBR.

Be sure and remove lilo since the newer 2.6 kernel will reinstall lilo if you recompile the kernel and rum "make install". And don't forget the /etc/lilo.conf

Here is a very good link:



Grub (http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/manual/html_node/Installing-GRUB-natively.html)