Quoting Uwe Hermann <
uwe@hermann-uwe.de>:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 07:10:25PM -0400,
joe@smittys.pointclark.net wrote:
>> Quoting Stefan Reinauer <
stepan@coresystems.de>:
>>
>> >
joe@smittys.pointclark.net wrote:
>> >>>> Also, the documentation is a little misleading. If your using filo
>> >>>> with grub (USE_GRUB = 1), and want to boot to your linux install disk
>> >>>> you have to do a mixture of grub and filo. Like grub you have to
>> >>>> append a kernel (and parameters), then an initrd, and give a boot
>> >>>> command. Like filo you have to give absolute paths.
>> >>>>
>> >>> Yes. FILO includes a bunch of GRUB code when USE_GRUB=1. I do not
>> >>> like GRUB and make sure I always disable USE_GRUB. :)
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >>>
>> >> How does everyone feel about adding something like this to the wiki?
>> >>
>> >>
>> >
>> > Please!
http://www.coreboot.org/FILO is very old and does not reflect
>> > all details and options of FILO these days.
>> >
>>
>> Updated. How does it look?
>
> Thanks! The CDROM part looks ok, but I'm not sure what you mean with the
> FILO/GRUB example. What do you mean with "mixture of GRUB and FILO
> commands"?
>
> If you use "USE_GRUB=1" then shouldn't this stanza in your menu.lst work?
>
Yes, but you don't have a menu.lst until you install linux, right?