help: lilo v. grub, mouse driver spastic, what happened?

[Bill Studley]

Hi Greg,

You can use the script grub-install to put the grub loader into the MBR 
of the first IDE drive by:

    grub-install /dev/hda

To fix your xserver you can edit inittab and the startx script or just 
use  Xconfigurator, or from RL3 as root type 'setup' and select the 
Xconfigurator tool.

IIRC the belkin switch can be made to imitate different types of mice by 
using control sequences from the keyboard.  You may have to reset the 
belkin box too.

HTH,

Bill Studley, RHCE

Greg Rundlett wrote:

>I recently did a kitchen-sink (everything) install of RH 7.3 on pretty
>'standard' PIII 700 MHz hardware, with about 40GB of disk, and 256MB RAM.  I
>chose KDE for my default desktop, and setup one user.  I use a Belkin
>OmniView SE 2-port switch to go back and forth between my RH box, and
>another workstation running WinXP.  Everything had been working fine for
>over a week....
>
>I even recall rebooting RH several times as I was trying to get the network
>setup right (I'm using a linksys router for DHCP and static IP addressing
>while it clones my NIC to the outside world).  I began using KMail, and
>browsing the internet, and doing all normal good things.  Remembering how
>much fun I used to have with Webmin, I decided to install it (via RPM).
>That is when bad things started to happen.
>
>First, my RH system boots into run level 3, when I had it setup to go to run
>level 5.  If I do login and startx, it tries to load Gnome, which tends to
>crash.  Could this be related to the fact that it is using LILO as a boot
>loader when I am almost certain that I was using Grub for a boot loader?
>
>If I use my Belkin switch to go to RH, I lose the mouse (actually, the mouse
>goes wild), but I do have keyboard input.  I have no idea whether this is a
>side-effect of the real problem, or perhaps a symptom of the real problem.
>
>I rebooted, uninstalled webmin RPM, and not much changed.  It still boots
>into runlevel 3 (not 5), and the mouse is not usable by the time I get into
>X.  Plus, it seems to have switched my default desktop to Gnome, if I log in
>under my user account - even though everything had been setup to use KDE.
>
>So, there is the situation as best as I can describe it.  I think if I can
>get it to use Grub instead of LILO, then I'll have the system working right
>again.  I guess my question is: How do I get RH to use Grub when it boots?
>I've tried the LDP, and my O'Reilly references, but I'm hoping to find
>better advice here.
>
>
>This is what my grub.conf looks like
># grub.conf generated by anaconda
>#
># Note that you do not have to rerun grub after making changes to this file
># NOTICE:  You have a /boot partition.  This means that
>#          all kernel and initrd paths are relative to /boot/, eg.
>#          root (hd0,0)
>#          kernel /vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/hda2
>#          initrd /initrd-version.img
>#boot=/dev/hda
>default=0
>timeout=10
>splashimage=(hd0,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
>title Red Hat Linux (2.4.18-3)
> root (hd0,0)
> kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 ro root=/dev/hda2
> initrd /initrd-2.4.18-3.img
>
>
>in /etc/lilo.conf.anaconda, I found this:
>prompt
>timeout=50
>default=linux
>boot=/dev/hda
>map=/boot/map
>install=/boot/boot.b
>message=/boot/message
>lba32
>
>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3
>        label=linux
>        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img
>        read-only
>        root=/dev/hda2
>
>
>adTHANKSvance
>--
>
>Greg Rundlett
>www.FREePHILE.com
>978-423-8172
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