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Regards Eion MacDonald (eionmac@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) Electronic mail is not secure and may not be authentic. If you have any doubts as to the contents please telephone to confirm. Anton Channing wrote: > Anton Channing wrote: >> Simon Williams wrote: >>> Install new OS- tell it not to install a bootloader. Your old bootloader >>> will remain and you can then add the new OS to it. Alternatively, if >>> you've currently got LILO and you want to upgrade to GRUB (which is >>> definitely better- especially if you've got multiple Linux installs), >>> let the new OS install GRUB and then add entries for the existing OSes. >>> It's not that hard to do, so long as you keep track of which OS is in >>> which partition and who owns the bootloader. >> Yeah, it just got confused last time I tried, so i >> assumed there is more to it. >> >>> Hope this helps. Let me know if you need more info. >>> Simon >> >> I'll give it a go this weekend and let you know if >> I get any problems. :) > > Hmm. I've just had a go again, but this time I can't > even get the sidux cd to boot. It just sits there > on the 'Booting from ATAPI CD' prompt forever. So I > gave up. > > Not sure why it would do that. Never tried a distro > that actually failed to boot the install disk! > > Any ideas? > > Anton > > Try Super GRUB Live CD disc to sort out . link: http://www.supergrubdisk.org/ Regards Eion MacDonald -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html