[Cialug] Installing Xubuntu

[David Champion]

Is there an option to use good old reliable lilo instead of grub?

-dc

Stuart Thiessen wrote:
> I was installing Xubuntu 6.10 on an older machine that has a 20G hard 
> drive and 1 CD-RW and 1 CD-ROM drive. When I installed it the first 2 
> times from the CD (using the text mode install), I told it to use the 
> whole drive and automatically partition it. Then when I rebooted from 
> the hard drive it gave me a Grub error 18 which from what I understand 
> basically means that my booting partition was too big for the BIOS??
> 
> So try #3 (third time is supposed to be the charm, right?), I manually 
> set up the partitions and set up a 4GB boot partition, and then left the 
> rest to / and swap. I rebooted from the hard drive, and now I have a 
> Grub error 17 which I am now researching.
> 
> Any suggestions?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Stuart
> 
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