Re: How to disable GRUB in Ark

"Gary L. Greene Jr." <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.arklinux.general
Organization Paradise Technology Group
Message-ID <[email protected]> 
On Monday 22 November 2004 1:31 am, you wrote:
> I couldn't resist the temptation of installing another Linux distro which I
> could use while Ark progresses towards being more stable, right now I find
> it difficult to do much of anything with my hardware support the way it is
> but I'm hoping that will improve as time passes.
>
> Anyway the other distribution I'm using is Mandrake Linux 10.0 (anyone else
> notice their prices jump btw? now Windows is probably cheaper! :-( ) I went
> to a lot of trouble to get a working entry for Ark Linux in the lilo menu
> but I managed it by copying over the files /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-3arksmp.img
> and /boot/initrd-2.6.9-3arksmp.img. I am however concerned that ark will
> mess up my lilo setup next time there is a kernel update that will instruct
> it to update its grub?

Nope, I've never had that happen here. I've had a 5 way multiboot for a while 
with 0 problems with QNX Neutrino loader as my boot loader for a while. (My 
setup is Windows XP Professional, Ark Linux Dockyard-devel, SuSE 9.1, QNX 
Neutrino RTOS, and BeOS.)

> Is there some way to have Ark not run /usr/sbin/lilo after a kernel update
> but still have it write the updated information to /boot/grub/grub.conf so
> I can copy over the necessary information to mandrake's lilo when there is
> a new kernel update.

All the %post scriptlets do in the kernel package is run grubby, which just 
adds the entry to grub.conf. Since GRUB is an intelligent bootstrap loader, 
it doesn't need to rebuiild the boot sector like lilo.

> BTW. I'm experiencing some odd quirks with Ark after proceeding with the
> Mandrake installation, I'm a little concerned that I'll mess up either my
> ark partition or my mandrake partition seeing as thats what happened last
> time I dual booted two distributions. If someone could go over the lines I
> added to /etc/lilo.conf in Mandrake and tell me whether I did something
> wrong or not I would appreciate that, the important lines from
> /etc/lilo.conf are:
>
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> default="linux-smp"
> keytable=/boot/us.klt
> prompt
> nowarn
> timeout=100
> message=/boot/message
> menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
>  . .
> #next entry for ark linux, created by Nathan, may not work
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-3arksmp
>         label="arklinux"
>         root=/dev/hda3
>         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.9-3arksmp.img
>         append="splash-silent"
>         read-only
>  . .
>
> Thanks.

My GRUB config is attached which has some of the missing entries in the append 
line.

-- 
Gary L. Greene, Jr.
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grub.conf (text/plain, 4.2 KB) 
default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd2,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Ark Linux - Home (1.0-0.alpha12.2ark) (2.6.9-ac62glg)
	root (hd2,1)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-ac62glg ro root=/dev/hdd2 vga=791
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-ac62glg.img
title Ark Linux - Home (1.0-0.alpha12.2ark) (2.6.10-0.rc1.1arksmp)
	root (hd2,1)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-0.rc1.1arksmp ro root=/dev/hdd2 vga=791 video=vesa:pmipal,mtrr splash=0 hdc=ide-scsi
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.10-0.rc1.1arksmp.img
title Ark Linux - Home (1.0-0.alpha12.2ark) (2.6.10-0.rc1.1ark)
	root (hd2,1)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-0.rc1.1ark ro root=/dev/hdd2 vga=791 video=vesa:pmipal,mtrr splash=0 hdc=ide-scsi
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.10-0.rc1.1ark.img
title Ark Linux - Home (1.0-0.alpha12.2ark) (2.6.9-3arksmp)
	root (hd2,1)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-3arksmp ro root=/dev/hdd2 vga=791 video=vesa:pmipal,mtrr splash=0 hdc=ide-scsi
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-3arksmp.img
title Ark Linux - Home (1.0-0.alpha12.2ark) (2.6.9-3ark)
	root (hd2,1)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-3ark ro root=/dev/hdd2 vga=791 video=vesa:pmipal,mtrr splash=0 hdc=ide-scsi
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-3ark.img
title Ark Linux - Home (1.0-0.alpha12.2ark) (2.6.9-1glg-test)
	root (hd2,1)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1glg-test ro root=/dev/hdd2 vga=791 video=vesa:pmipal,mtrr splash=0 hdc=ide-scsi
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1glg-test.img
title Ark Linux - Home (1.0-0.alpha12.2ark) (2.6.9-1arksmp)
	root (hd2,1)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1arksmp ro root=/dev/hdd2 vga=791 video=vesa:pmipal,mtrr splash=silent hdc=ide-scsi
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1arksmp.img
title Ark Linux - Home (1.0-0.alpha12.2ark) (2.6.9-1ark)
	root (hd2,1)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1ark ro root=/dev/hdd2 vga=791 video=vesa:pmipal,mtrr splash=0 hdc=ide-scsi
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-1ark.img
title Ark Linux - Home (1.0-0.alpha12.2ark) (2.6.9-0.rc4.3arksmp)
	root (hd2,1)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-0.rc4.3arksmp ro root=/dev/hdd2 vga=791 video=vesa:pmipal,mtrr splash=silent hdc=ide-scsi
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-0.rc4.3arksmp.img
title Ark Linux - Home (1.0-0.alpha12.2ark) (2.6.9-0.rc4.3ark)
	root (hd2,1)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-0.rc4.3ark ro root=/dev/hdd2 vga=791 video=vesa:pmipal,mtrr splash=silent hdc=ide-scsi
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-0.rc4.3ark.img
title Ark Linux - Home (1.0-0.alpha12.2ark) (2.6.9-0.rc4.2arksmp)
	root (hd2,1)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-0.rc4.2arksmp ro root=/dev/hdd2 vga=791 video=vesa:pmipal,mtrr splash=silent hdc=ide-scsi
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-0.rc4.2arksmp.img
title Ark Linux - Home (1.0-0.alpha12.2ark) (2.6.9-0.rc4.2ark)
	root (hd2,1)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-0.rc4.2ark ro root=/dev/hdd2 vga=791 video=vesa:pmipal,mtrr splash=silent hdc=ide-scsi
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-0.rc4.2ark.img
title Ark Linux - Home (1.0-0.alpha12.2ark) (2.6.9-0.rc4.1arksmp)
	root (hd2,1)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-0.rc4.1arksmp ro root=/dev/hdd2 vga=791 video=vesa:pmipal,mtrr splash=silent hdc=ide-scsi
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-0.rc4.1arksmp.img
title Ark Linux - Home (1.0-0.alpha12.2ark) (2.6.9-0.rc4.1ark)
	root (hd2,1)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-0.rc4.1ark ro root=/dev/hdd2 vga=791 video=vesa:pmipal,mtrr splash=silent hdc=ide-scsi
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-0.rc4.1ark.img
title Ark Linux - Home (1.0-0.alpha12.2ark) (2.6.9-0.rc3.2arksmp)
	root (hd2,1)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-0.rc3.2arksmp ro root=/dev/hdd2 vga=791 video=vesa:pmipal,mtrr splash=silent hdc=ide-scsi
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-0.rc3.2arksmp.img
title Ark Linux - Home (1.0-0.alpha12.2ark) (2.6.9-0.rc3.2ark)
	root (hd2,1)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-0.rc3.2ark ro root=/dev/hdd2 vga=791 video=vesa:pmipal,mtrr splash=silent hdc=ide-scsi
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-0.rc3.2ark.img
title Ark Linux - Home (1.0-0.alpha12.2ark) (2.6.9-0.rc2.3ark)
	root (hd2,1)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-0.rc2.3ark ro root=/dev/hdd2 vga=791 video=vesa:pmipal,mtrr splash=silent hdc=ide-scsi
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-0.rc2.3ark.img
title Ark Linux - Home (1.0-0.alpha12.2ark) (2.6.9-0.rc2.2ark)
	root (hd2,1)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-0.rc2.2ark ro root=/dev/hdd2 vga=791 video=vesa:pmipal,mtrr splash=silent hdc=ide-scsi
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.9-0.rc2.2ark.img
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