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Hmh: /* LILO, GRUB and NT Boot Loader */ repair table

2008-01-27T19:26:05Z

‎LILO, GRUB and NT Boot Loader: repair table

Blood at 16:29, 27 January 2008

2008-01-27T16:29:58Z

Cdiggity: /* Installing GRUB to a partitions boot sector */

2008-01-27T14:04:58Z

‎Installing GRUB to a partitions boot sector

ColdPie: Grammar/spelling corrections and some rewording and rearranging.

2007-10-18T20:28:03Z

Grammar/spelling corrections and some rewording and rearranging.

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Christi at 13:37, 29 August 2007

2007-08-29T13:37:41Z

Matt: /* LILO, GRUB and NT Boot Loader */ {{prettytable}}

2007-02-01T10:52:56Z

‎LILO, GRUB and NT Boot Loader: {{prettytable}}

Treibholz: /* Manual */ typo

2006-12-29T18:14:04Z

‎Manual: typo

Treibholz: /* Manual */

2006-12-29T18:13:33Z

‎Manual

Zchang: /* External Sources */

2006-03-26T12:07:18Z

‎External Sources

Hmh: First sectors of a partition are NOT always fair game.

2006-02-17T20:17:42Z

First sectors of a partition are NOT always fair game.

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 {| {{prettytable}}
 |+Comparison Table
-! !  LILO ! GRUB ! NT Boot Loader
+|-
 |- style="vertical-align:top;"
 | Occupies || MBR '''or''' boot sector || MBR '''or''' boot sector || MBR '''and''' boot sector

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 {| {{prettytable}}
 |+Comparison Table
-! !!  LILO !! GRUB !! NT Boot Loader
+! !  LILO ! GRUB ! NT Boot Loader
 |- style="vertical-align:top;"
 | Occupies || MBR '''or''' boot sector || MBR '''or''' boot sector || MBR '''and''' boot sector
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 *[http://www.clug.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?InfamousLiThenStopProblem CLUGs Infamouse LI Then Stops Problem page]
 *[http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/3952/3952.html?Ad=1 Windows IT article about the NT Boot Process]
-*[http://ce.et.tudelft.nl/~zhijiangchang/index.html#useful How to use WINDOWS BOOT LOADER to make windows, linux and AcessIBM work all together]
+*[http://ce.et.tudelft.nl/~zhijiangchang/resources/inst3.html How to use WINDOWS BOOT LOADER to make windows, linux and AcessIBM work all together]

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 ===Installing GRUB to a partitions boot sector===
 *Create or edit a minimal {{path|/boot/grub/menu.lst}} like this.
-  boot=/dev/hda2
+  # uncomment and edit accordingly if you have a boot partition that is different from your root partition
   default=0
   title Linux
         root (hd0,1)
         kernel /boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda2
 *Launch the GRUB shell by running {{cmdroot|grub}}. Make sure that your stage files are properly setup (see above).
 *Within the GRUB shell select the partition on which your {{path|/boot/grub}} directory resides using the <tt>root</tt> command, i.e. for the second partion on the first harddisk ({{path|/dev/hda2}}), enter

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   makeactive
   chainloader +1
 ==External Sources==

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 ==LILO, GRUB and NT Boot Loader==
-{| border="1" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2"
+{| {{prettytable}}
 |+Comparison Table
 ! !!  LILO !! GRUB !! NT Boot Loader

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 *Copy over the necessary stage files from {{path|/usr/share/grub/i386-pc/}} or {{path|/usr/lib/grub/i386-pc}}. You will need {{path|stage1}}, {{path|stage2}} and usually one or more stage 1.5 files matching your filesystem. Usually these are {{path|e2fs_stage1_5}}, {{path|reiserfs_stage1_5}} or {{path|iso9660_stage1_5}}. Look into the directory for support of other filesystems.
 *To get the comfortable GRUB boot menu you will have to create the file {{path|/boot/grub/menu.lst}}. The format of it is explained in GRUBs info page ({{cmduser|info grub}}).
-*On some Thinkpads, the installation may fail if there is no drive in the ultrabay.
+*On some Thinkpads, the installation may fail, if there is no drive in the ultrabay.
 *Once everything is setup in {{path|/boot/grub}}, launch the GRUB shell by running {{cmdroot|grub}}.
 *Within the GRUB shell select the partition on which your {{path|/boot/grub}} directory resides using the {{cmd|root|}} command, i.e. for the second partion on the first harddisk ({{path|/dev/hda2}}), enter

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	*[http://www.clug.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?InfamousLiThenStopProblem CLUGs Infamouse LI Then Stops Problem page]		*[http://www.clug.org/cgi/wiki.cgi?InfamousLiThenStopProblem CLUGs Infamouse LI Then Stops Problem page]
	*[http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/3952/3952.html?Ad=1 Windows IT article about the NT Boot Process]		*[http://www.windowsitpro.com/Article/ArticleID/3952/3952.html?Ad=1 Windows IT article about the NT Boot Process]
		+	*[http://ce.et.tudelft.nl/~zhijiangchang/index.html#useful How to use WINDOWS BOOT LOADER to make windows, linux and AcessIBM work all together]

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 ===The Boot Sectors===
-This first sector is called the boot sector. For different types of media different kinds of boot sectors are required, and since booting the harddrive is what we are concerned about here, we'll look into that specifically. Now, a harddrive is usually divided into partitions. Even if you only have one partition covering your whole drive, the internal structure is still the same. The first sector of your harddrive is the Master Boot Record (MBR), which includes the harddrives boot code as well as the hard drives partition table. The partition table contains information about the partition layout of your harddisk. The MBR typically is 512 bytes in size, as is the size of every sector on an x86 machines harddisk. Now, every partitions first sector is called the boot sector of that partition, because it actually is reserved especially to serve that purpose. To summarize, a harddisk will always contain boot code in the MBR, and can contain further boot code in one or several boot sectors, each belonging to one partition.
+This first sector is called the boot sector. For different types of media different kinds of boot sectors are required, and since booting the harddrive is what we are concerned about here, we'll look into that specifically. Now, a harddrive is usually divided into partitions. Even if you only have one partition covering your whole drive, the internal structure is still the same. The first sector of your harddrive is the Master Boot Record (MBR), which includes the harddrives boot code as well as the hard drives partition table. The partition table contains information about the partition layout of your harddisk. The MBR typically is 512 bytes in size, as is the size of every sector on an x86 machines harddisk.
 ===The Boot Loader stage===