Can Slackware run GRUB instead of LILO

[cheetahman]

Is it possible

[bidi]

All you have to do is install it. If I'm not mistaken, www.linuxpackages.net has a grub package.

[TomX]

Don't bother with LinuxPackages, it's in slackware-current under extra.

http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mir...nt/extra/grub/

[Weedman]

Don't bother with LinuxPackages, it's in slackware-current under extra.

http://anorien.csc.warwick.ac.uk/mir...nt/extra/grub/

last time i checked the extra section, the grub version was 0.95. the link below has the current version (0.97).

All you have to do is install it. If I'm not mistaken, www.linuxpackages.net has a grub package.

thats where i got my grub from.
just remember to do:

ln -s /boot/grub/menu.lst.sample /boot/grub/menu.lst

then edit /boot/grub/menu.lst to you specific requirements

weed

[SenorDingDong]

I just installed Grub and it worked fine, I read on how to do the SplashImage and have my image ready, but Where do I get the splashimage patch from? I cant find it anywhere.

[Weedman]

if you installed grub 0.95 or higher, it is already there.

just edit /boot/grub/menu.lst:

splashimage (hd0,0)/boot/grub/<yoursplashimage.xpm.gz>

where (hd0,0) is where your kernel is and <yoursplashimage.xpm.gz> is what your splash image is called.

just make sure that the image is 640x480 and has only 14 colours in it.

weed

[SenorDingDong]

Are you sure you don't need a patch? I have the .97 for Grub installed and I couldnt get it to work.

Whats is the exact LINE word for word I would have to type. My Linux is on the dev/hda3 partition. My image is called slack.xpm.gz, I used GIMP to change it to 640x480, and 14 colours only.