Hi, I would like to thank Derek Jennings and FemmeFatale for the replies.
I am sorry if the old hands find this a bit over kill but for beginners like me this is good. I want to add that I also needed to print and read about 70 pages from lilo htm and pdf files. Something else I would like to point out - I used Mandrake9.1 install partitioning to do the disk - when it reached apps to install I reset the PC. I prefer mandrake partitioninig - more friendly for me. This is for information only to someone who may need it. Have installed 3 OS's on one disk - see below I installed dos - then - redhat - then - mandrake. Do not forget make boot disks. They do not see each other or use each others partitions unless mounted. When I installed redhat I let it install lilo - when you install mandrake it will owerwrite the MBR with its version and this way you can test out redhat before you continue. Mandrake was last - I found in the past that mandrake is good at picking up OS,s and configuring them in lilo. This time picked up but used mandrakes linuz & initrd. Derek's reply eventualy put me on the track. Thanks. All examples refer to my setup. This just show the drive setup. Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hde1 * 1 101 811251 6 FAT16 - Dos /dev/hde2 102 2494 19221772+ 5 Extended /dev/hde5 102 1261 9317668+ 83 Linux --Redhat8.0 /dev/hde6 1262 1362 811251 82 Linux swap -for both /dev/hde7 1363 2494 9092758+ 83 Linux --Mandrake9.1 What is importend for this to work is the following after all installs done.. 1. With Mandrake loaded. 2. Su in console. 3. mkdir /mnt/redhat. 4. mount -t ext3 /dev/hde /mnt/redhat - THIS IS VERY IMPORTEND otherwise it will just NOT work. If redhat is not mounted by fstab (I dont do - only on console when needed) If you should run lilo -v on another day - repeat 4. 5. cd /etc 6. gedit lilo.conf 7. add the lines as below and save. 8. lilo -v. ( MBR ). 9. What is importend add /mnt/redhat to image and initrd - if you leave it out at initrd -- command lilo -v will complain : fatal: no such file or directory. After a lot of grief I realized this. <snip> image=/mnt/redhat/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 label="Redhat" root=/dev/hde5 initrd=/mnt/redhat/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img read-only Enjoy Johan . May this be a good day for learning
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