[GRUB]Resolution setup

Daniel Moyne dmoyne at tiscali.fr
Wed Feb 2 05:51:56 UTC 2005


Le Mardi 1 Février 2005 20:57, Thomas Cameron a écrit :
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Daniel Moyne" <dmoyne at tiscali.fr>
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 1:51 PM
> Subject: Re: [GRUB]Resolution setup
>
> > Thanks Tom I will try this ; for fun how to go back to my LILO on hda1 :
> > you
> > did not answer my question ; the idea is to go from LILO to GRUB then to
> > LILO
> > and so on....
> > Regards
>
> My name's Thomas, not Tom.
>
> I thought the question was about screen resolution.  I don't see anywhere
> where you asked about going from grub to lilo.  Am I missing something?
>
> Anyway, the short answer is, I don't know if you can.  lilo and grub are
> both bootloaders which write to the MBR.  I don't think you can use both at
> the same time.  I could be wrong.
>
> Even if you can use both, I don't think it makes much sense.  grub has a
> MUCH better feature set.  lilo is pretty much obsolete.
Thomas,
I do use both ; they both can be written to MBR or elswhere ; for the time 
being I have LILO on MBR (hda1) initially installed with my current Mandrake 
distribution and GRUB installed on hdb1 therefore to keep access to LILO for 
Mandrake boot ; during all this test period I have to go from LILO to GRUB 
depending of what I do ; for example I write this mail with Kmail-Mandrake 
where I collect all my mail and not from KMail-Fedora for practical reasons ; 
then a LILO entry in GRUB could be of use if I can select like on LILO a 
reboot entry in GRUB which I am nor sure of.

Regarding use of LILO I thought that most of the Linux people were using GRUB 
but for the time being this point is not relevant.

Once my test period of Fedora finished I will decide of the future ; my next 
goal is :
- to fix all update procedure both with YUM and SYNAPTIC (a little bit more 
complex than with Mandrake),
- to compile a few things here and there : I have to install my Tekram SCSI 
driver not include in Fedora kernels.

Lately I have experienced a crash in KDE : this bug is not directly related to 
Fedora distribution but though it is scary. 

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