[H-GEN] Boot selector for Debian

[Greg Black]

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On 2003-05-28, Michael Anthon wrote:
> > If anybody has any suggestions for solving this, preferably that
> > don't endanger the data on the disk, I'd be most grateful for a
> > clue so that I don't have to keep booting from floppy ...
> 
> Install grub?  I don't like lilo, grub knows how to read ext2 and dos (maybe
> more now?) file systems so you don't need to futz around with it once it's
> configured (just change the config file to add the new kernel and reboot).
> A sample of my menu.lst file is below.

This turned out to be Good Advice after the earlier fiasco with
LILO.  I ran grub-install, edited /boot/grub/menu.lst based on
Michael's example suitably edited for my setup, and booted up.

I made a typo in the config file that caused a kernel panic with
a singularly unhelpful error message.  However, rebooting and
typing the correct stuff at grub allowed me to fix the mistake
easily and then I could boot one of my Linux kernels or Windows
as I wished.  The experience with GRUB was most satisfactory.  I
recommend it.  I certainly don't recommend LILO.

Thanks to all for the help, both useful and less so.

Greg

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