Re: [newbie] Lilo problems - almost there

[John Richard Smith]

Anne Wilson wrote:

On Tuesday 19 Nov 2002 1:41 am, Terry Smith wrote:

Excellent Anne! Good job. Why don't you post your new lilo.conf file and
we'll see if folks can deduce what's wrong with the 8.2 stanza.

boot=/dev/hde
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
default=Mandrake_8.2
keytable=/boot/uk.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80
image=/boot/vmlinuz
	label=Mandrake_9.0-2.
	root=/dev/hdf1
	initrd=/boot/initrd.img
	append="nobiospnp devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi"
	read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-16mdk
	label=failsafe
	root=/dev/hdf1
	initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.19-16mdk.img
	append="failsafe devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi"
	read-only
other=/dev/hde1
	label=windows
	table=/dev/hde
	map-drive=0x80
	   to=0x81
	map-drive=0x81
	   to=0x80
other=/dev/fd0
	label=floppy
	unsafe
image=/boot/vmlinuz

should be image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-6mdk

	label=Mandrake_8.2

	root=/dev/hde6
	initrd=/boot/initrd.img

should be initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-6mdk.img

append="nobiospmp devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi"
vga=normal
read-only

I have learned a lot, but over the next day or so, I'll be asking questions about the bits that are still unclear. Thanks for your help.

Anne

You are not telling the system which kernel and initrd file to use, and it's best to
define both kernels and initrd files for both Mandrake OS , even though it has booted
one OS on the one ill defined version.

When you get used to this you can download other peoples amended
kernel versions and install them in /boot partition, and write a new stanza
to boot on it, without removing anything of the old setup, that way you can test
things out easily.

John

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