Boot Loader in RH8.0

[Didimo Grimaldo]

I. Previous condition (Red Hat 7.2)

The bootloader configuration contained an entry for an old kernel, one for the current kernel, and yet another for WinXP.

Booting was done primarily with the WinXP boot loader. There I selected Red Hat Linux, then I got the graphical LINUX boot screen where I (again) could select the OS of choice (this time from Linux). This graphical screen showed me the 3 OS options I had configured.

It is not clear to me wheter this graphical thing was a LILO or Grub thing. Can anybody explain it?

In the upgrade to 7.2 the bootloader thing simply worked out of the box, it updated my config and created that graphical screen.

II. Current situation (REd Hat 8.0)

During the upgrade I selected "modify current bootloader configuration" (the recommended option).

I understand LILO was discontinued from RH8 but somehow I still see it is an installed RPM in my system. Why?

I don't see GRUB installed on my system anymore... Was it also discontinued?

I did copy the boot sector to the Win partition to use with the Win boot loader:
dd if=/dev/hda8 of=bootsect.lnx count=1 bc=512
I think it was bc or something like that. Anyway the bootsect.lnx is created with size 512. /dev/hda8 is my root "/" partition. Kernels are in /boot (/dev/hda3).

The problem is... now when I use the WinXP boot loader and select Linux (and it uses the proper bootsect file) instead of the usual graphical linux bootloader screen I grew accustomed to, I now see four garbage characters followed by LILO: there I can press enter and it boots linux. The other problem here is (that is in addition to the missing graphical selection) it tries to boot the OLD kernel that no longer exists!!! why is that? my bootsect.lnx file is ok.

So, the only way to boot is with the boot floppy which is not what I want.

What is the "normal" way to boot in RH8? is it with LILO? or something else? if it is not LILO how can I switch to the "new" method?

Thanks,
Emilio

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