On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 00:24:04 +1300
SnapafunFrank <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Dumb question time - Is this lilo.conf you are working with on
> > the second hard drive? Was the drive /dev/hdb when you
> > installed Linux on it, or did you just have the drive with
> > Linux on it in the machine when you installed it, and added
> > back the Windows drive? Or do you have both Linux and Windows
> > on the first drive, and you are trying to boot a second Linux
> > install from the second drive?
> >
> > Mikkel
>
> Sorry for the delay in getting back to you folk but hopefully I
> can make up for it now.
>
> First my lilo.conf [ Note: this is on my master hdd and is booting
>
> Mandrake10 Official and then of course my WinMe which is on the
> slave hdd.]
>
> # File generated by DrakX/drakboot and reconfigured by
> SnapafunFrank. # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after
> modifying this file
>
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> default="windows"
> keytable=/boot/us.klt
> prompt
> nowarn
> timeout=200
> message=/boot/message
> menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
> image=/boot/vmlinuz263
> label="linux263"
> root=/dev/hda5
> initrd=/boot/initrd263.img
> append="noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent"
> vga=788
> read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz2610
> label="linux2610"
> root=/dev/hda5
> vga=788
> append=" noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent"
> initrd=/boot/initrd2610.img
> read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz267
> label="linux267"
> root=/dev/hda5
> initrd=/boot/initrd267.img
> append="noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent"
> vga=788
> read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz263
> label="linux-nonfb263"
> root=/dev/hda5
> initrd=/boot/initrd263.img
> append="noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent"
> read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz2610
> label="linux-nonfb2610"
> root=/dev/hda5
> initrd=/boot/initrd2610.img
> append="noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent"
> read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz267
> label="linux-nonfb267"
> root=/dev/hda5
> initrd=/boot/initrd267.img
> append="noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent"
> read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz263
> label="failsafe263"
> root=/dev/hda5
> initrd=/boot/initrd263.img
> append="failsafe noapic acpi=ht devfs=nomount"
> read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz2610
> label="failsafe2610"
> root=/dev/hda5
> initrd=/boot/initrd2610.img
> append="failsafe noapic acpi=ht devfs=nomount"
> read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz267
> label="failsafe267"
> root=/dev/hda5
> initrd=/boot/initrd267.img
> append="failsafe noapic acpi=ht devfs=nomount"
> read-only
> other=/dev/hdb1
> label="windows"
> table=/dev/hdb
> map-drive=0x80
> to=0x81
> map-drive=0x81
> to=0x80
> image=/boot/vmlinuz2422
> label="linux2422"
> root=/dev/hda5
> initrd=/boot/initrd2422.img
> append="noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent"
> read-only
> #other=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2
> # label="linux90"
> # table=/dev/hdb
> # image=/boot/vmlinuz
> # root=/dev/hdb5
> # initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> # append="noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent"
> # vga=788
> # read-only
> image=/boot/memtest-1.11.bin
> label="memtest-1.11"
> read-only
>
> Hope someone is suitably impressed ~ I can boot the lot seen here
> (other than the system on the slave hdd) albeit that except for
> linux263, the others are only to text consoles at the moment
> because I have yet to compile the new nVidia drivers as I have
> done for the 2.6.3-7 kernel.
>
> And oh yeah - haven't convinced Jan yet so the default is still
> Windows - got to get my LAN started so that she can play her
> cards on Linux without probably knowing it initially. No, she
> ain't dumb, I'm just being a little sneaky is all.
>
> Anyway, back to my problem.
>
> I do not believe that starting out with " image=/boot/vmlinuz "
> will not work because there is nothing in that to tell lilo to
> find the image on the slave (hdb) drive. Please correct me if'n
> I'm wrong here!
>
> To explain how I got WinMe to work you need to understand that
> windows must think it's in control, hence the 'map' entries - I
> turn things on for windows then turn them off again ~ enough to
> fool windows into believing it is in control.
>
> So, though starting with "other-" may not be the way, I need to
> tell lilo where to find the image I want it to use, and that
> critter is in the boot partition on hdb which the current system
> sees as " /mnt/hdb2_boot ". Lilo of course would see it as
> /dev/hdb2.
>
> Basically, lilo needs to be pointed at that partition the moment I
>
> select it as an option.
What I've done in the past (not saying it is the correct way to
do it, or the only way) is to copy all the necessary files out of
/boot from all partitions which had bootable linux distro's
installed on them - to /boot on the partition which would be
controlling the booting process (I even copied all files from /boot
on the partition controlling booting to all the others - wasn't sure
if that step was needed but appeared to not hurt anything) then I
was able to set these two entries in lilo.conf like this;
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="Mandrake9.1"
root=/dev/hdb5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="quiet devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8
label="RedHat9"
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img
append="hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off"
vga=788
read-only
You are correct that "image=/boot/vmlinuz" probably wouldn't work on
your system because that is typically a link to which ever kernel
version is installed. Your system appears to be setup to not use
such a link, so you would just have to show it as
"image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.whatever.version.youhave"
then you would also need to modify "initrd=/boot/initrd.img" to
point to what ever version of initrd you would be using, like your
other entries in lilo.conf do.
if you were to copy vmlinuz, initrd, config, etc. (not exactly sure
off the top of my head which files you need to copy out of /boot -
anybody know off hand?) from your 9.1 install IRC to which ever
partition that controls your bootup, then instead of;
other=/dev/ide/host0/bus0/target1/lun0/part2
label="linux90"
table=/dev/hdb
image=/boot/vmlinuz
root=/dev/hdb5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent"
vga=788
read-only
how about this;
image=/boot/vmlinuz.your.version.here
label="linux90"
root=/dev/hdb5
initrd=/boot/initrd.your.version.here.img
append="noapic devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent"
vga=788
read-only
other than that, I would tend to suspect that maybe root=/dev/hdb5
may need to have a different partition number instead of 5.
Hope I am not too confusing!
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