LILO: Get rid of it to install GRUB

[arthur]

Hi there!

My first post after registration!

I've been looking around for quite a while, but haven't found a suitable answer.

I am using a floppy-less Samsung X10 Centrino Laptop, where the best distro I've installed so far is Knoppix 3.2.

My problem is:

I do NOT want to use LILO, but the installation programme only offers this choice.

I've run

grub-install /dev/hda

and created a grub.conf file with the following lines

default=0
timeout=10

title Knoppix 3.2
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-xfs ro
initrd /boot/initrd.gz

title Windows XP Professional SP1
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1

After rebooting, the system doesn't start: it just goes into the grub prompt.

What is wrong and / or what is missing in the previous grub.conf setup?.

Regards,

Arthur :( :( :(

[arthur]

I forgot to include the following

40 GB HD

1.5 GB Win98
5.0 GB Win XP Pro NTFS
10 GB Data (shared Win$ & LINUX)

5.5 GB ext3 KNOPPIX 3.2 (hda7)
600 MB swap

GRUB would then look for the kernel in

(hd0,6)

Can anyone help?

[Superstoned]

I dont know much 'bout grub, acutally I'd like to know it too, I guess you can better google it... tell us if you found out ;)

[garyng]

you got the prompt it means it starts, just can't find the menu file. Try this at the GRUB prompt :

root (hd0,0)
configfile /<your grub.conf path>

[fingers99]

There are a couple of HOWTOs which touch on all this. But I'm interested in how well Knoppix works with a Centrino device.

[arthur]

Hi!

How well does Knoppix work with a Centrino laptop?.

So far, the best distro :) :)

I've installed / tried to install

Red Hat 9.0 Second best
LinEx 3.0 r1
Mandrake 9.1
SuSE 8.1 Pro
Lycoris Amethyst Build 46
Gentoo 1.4 (stage 3)

KNOPPIX 3.2 is Debian after a HDD install, and it works almost perfectly (which is quite a lot to say except for the horrific LILO startup screen).