RH7.2 & Grub

[tengel]

Just an FYI as well, it's a two stage boot loader, unlike LILO, and hence doesn't require recompiling a binary boot sector and installing it -- simply edit the config file and reboot. The primary boot sector image then knows to look for the secondary at a certain cylinder.

One trick I've found handy is adding an additional grub.conf parameter "fallback", in case a kernel upgrade goes awry or something.  Assuming you have two kernels, and they boot from top to bottom as listed in preference, the config would be like:

...
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
fallback=1
timeout=10
...

hth,
-te

On Wed, Mar 13, 2002 at 01:19:30PM -0800, Warren Raquel wrote:
> Correct. No more separate /boot partition at the beginning of the drive!
> 
> From: "dustin" <dustin at sonic.net>
> > 
> > versions do not.  I'm assuming that Grub does NOT have this limitation and
> > the kernel can be placed anywhere on the hard drive (thus eliminating the
> > need for a /boot partition to live at the beginning of a disk.)

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Troy Engel
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