Question about installing bootloader

Question about installing bootloader

[Christian]

Hi all,
I want to change the location of the Grub bootloader from my primary harddrive to my secondary where i have linux installed. How do I do that?
Many thanks,
Christian

Re: Question about installing bootloader

[Janina Sajka]

Christian writes:
> Hi all,
> I want to change the location of the Grub bootloader from my primary harddrive to my secondary where i have linux installed. How do I do that?

The command you want is grub-install. Check its help for the options.
It's quite straight forward.

Janina

> Many thanks,
> Christian
> 
> 
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Re: Question about installing bootloader

[Tony Baechler]

Hi all,

Which bootloader is better, grub or lilo?  I never got grub to work when 
I tried it so I just stuck with lilo.  I'm running Debian Etch.  When I 
originally set the machine up, it was running Woody, then Sarge and now 
Etch.  I don't really need Speakup support and I'm using the stock 
Debian 2.6.18-5-686 kernel.  It seems that lilo is being phased out.  It 
hasn't really been updated since Sarge from what I can tell.  The 
machine is a dedicated Linux server running Apache and Qmail.  There are 
no other operating systems on it and stability is critical as it's in a 
corporate environment.  All access is done with ssh.  Should I look into 
changing to grub or leave well enough alone?  Also, do any stock Debian 
kernels come with Speakup built in?  Nothing in the package descriptions 
say anything about Speakup.  Sarge had a 2.4.x Speakup kernel but it 
never got security updates.

Janina Sajka wrote:
> Christian writes:
>   
>> Hi all,
>> I want to change the location of the Grub bootloader from my primary harddrive to my secondary where i have linux installed. How do I do that?
>>     
>
> The command you want is grub-install. Check its help for the options.
> It's quite straight forward.
>   

Re: Question about installing bootloader

[Geoff Shang]

Tony Baechler wrote:

> Which bootloader is better, grub or lilo?

Technically Grub is better because it understands filesystems and you don't 
need to install your config every time you need to make a change to your 
boot menu, etc.

> The machine is a 
> dedicated Linux server running Apache and Qmail.  There are no other 
> operating systems on it and stability is critical as it's in a corporate 
> environment.  All access is done with ssh.  Should I look into changing to 
> grub or leave well enough alone?

My philosophy generally is if it ain't broke, don't fix it.  But if the 
fact that it is being phased out bothers you, you might want to look at 
changing.

> Also, do any stock Debian kernels come with 
> Speakup built in?  Nothing in the package descriptions say anything about 
> Speakup.  Sarge had a 2.4.x Speakup kernel but it never got security updates.

There are Etch Speakup kernels but they aren't in the main Debian 
repository.  http://people.debian.org/~shane/

Geoff.

Re: Question about installing bootloader

[Janina Sajka]

I've not had any problems using grub over several years now. I don't
have more accessibility than with lilo, but I don't have less either.

On the other hand, grub provides capibilities not present in lilo that
may or may not matter to you such as failover.

Janina

Tony Baechler writes:
> Hi all,
>
> Which bootloader is better, grub or lilo?  I never got grub to work when I 
> tried it so I just stuck with lilo.  I'm running Debian Etch.  When I 
> originally set the machine up, it was running Woody, then Sarge and now 
> Etch.  I don't really need Speakup support and I'm using the stock Debian 
> 2.6.18-5-686 kernel.  It seems that lilo is being phased out.  It hasn't 
> really been updated since Sarge from what I can tell.  The machine is a 
> dedicated Linux server running Apache and Qmail.  There are no other 
> operating systems on it and stability is critical as it's in a corporate 
> environment.  All access is done with ssh.  Should I look into changing to 
> grub or leave well enough alone?  Also, do any stock Debian kernels come 
> with Speakup built in?  Nothing in the package descriptions say anything 
> about Speakup.  Sarge had a 2.4.x Speakup kernel but it never got security 
> updates.
>
> Janina Sajka wrote:
>> Christian writes:
>>   
>>> Hi all,
>>> I want to change the location of the Grub bootloader from my primary harddrive to my secondary where i have linux installed. How do I do that?
>>>     
>>
>> The command you want is grub-install. Check its help for the options.
>> It's quite straight forward.
>>   
>
> _______________________________________________
> Blinux-list mailing list
> Blinux-list@redhat.com
> https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list

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