On Saturday 29 July 2006 4:38 pm, Folderol wrote:
> Is it just me... something about Demudi or?
>
> Gnome seems to be incredibly fragile. Almost any configuration
> change is liable to make it roll over and wave it's legs in the air
> :(
>
> Also...
>
> After an epic battle I managed to get Demudi dual booting with
> Mandrake. Is there a simple way to get Demudi 1.3 on board without
> upsetting LILO?
I've found GRUB to be much easier to work with than LILO. Have you
considered moving to GRUB when you install Demudi 1.3?
Advantage 1: You don't have to update GRUB whenever you update the
libraries (or something like that, I've forgotten now exactly what
you had to do to LILO to get it to recognize new libraries.)
Advantage 2: GRUB is very good at recognizing various installations of
Linux and even Windows. I have Windows NT on the Master Boot Record
of an IDE hard drive, and Linux (SuSE and Debian) on the Master Boot
Record of a SCSI drive. GRUB allows me to boot from either hard
drive.
In the hardware BIOS I select booting from the SCSI drive (since
that's what I use most of the time.) I could reset the hardware BIOS
to boot from the IDE drive to get into Windows NT when I want Windows
NT, but it's much more convenient to always boot into the SCSI drive
and then let GRUB remap the drives to run Windows NT. Here's what
the GRUB entry for Windows NT partition looks like:
title Windows NT
map (hd0) (hd1)
map (hd1) (hd0)
chainloader (hd1,0)+1
Regards,
Stephen.
