On Thursday 09 May 2002 11:28 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > On Thursday 09 May 2002 08:56, you wrote: > > Thanks for the help Bascule. > > > > I have all the time in the world to do this properly. So please > > read my lilo.conf (below) and see if it looks ok to you first. I > > copied vmlinuz-2.2.15-4mdk across from hdb5 /boot to hda2 /boot. If > > i understand you correctly this may not be necessary. I thought as > > LILO was in hda2 /boot vmlinuz had to be there as well. > > Well you have windows as hda1 therefore lilo goes in MBR of windows. > Therefore in the Civileme method of dual booting, your kernels and > initrd for both Linux OS's go in the /boot directory of, which ever > is the active /boot directory, of the two Linux OS's , usually the > last one to install. In your case , either hda2 or hdb5, from your > description I think it is hda2.
That's the crux of it John. I have read Civileme's method of dual booting as well. But i had no initrd in 7.1's /boot directory. I am unsure if this was because i used grub as bootloader for 7.1 or not. > The first line of your lilo.conf entry ,boot=/dev/hda, says that lilo > is in the MBR of windows and that you have a chain loader situation, > where Lilo comes up first , where you choose either to directly boot > either of you linux OS's or pass it on to windows to boot windows OS. > > > I have the boot floppy which came in the 7.1 box set. I don't need > > one to rescue 8.2. > > Very unlikely it will work at all, I find that once you have altered > in any way the layout of your hard drive ,boot floppies have to be > remade immediately,something we all forget to do, from desktop when > you get there. The boot floppy for 7.1 will work to start the 7.1 CD. From there i can go into rescue mode and mount hdb5 (the 7.1 partition). But it would be nice to start 7.1 from the LILO options. > > On Thursday 09 May 2002 9:36 am, bascule wrote: > > > you don't have to have an initrd.img to boot > > > edit lilo.conf to reference the vmlinuz.xxx with correct root > > > partition and label, run lilo and it should work, if it doesn't > > > get back with your lilo.conf and details, back up your lilo.conf > > > first just in case, and have a boot floppy (if you don't have one > > > make it first), ycnbtc > > > > > > bascule > > > > > > On Wednesday 08 May 2002 9:06 pm, you wrote: > > > > I loaded 8.2 onto the main HD with windows and set LILO as the > > > > boot loader. > > > > > > > > I went looking for "vmlinuz.xxx" and "initrd.xxx" from 7.1. > > > > There was no initrd file to fetch. Is this because i used grub > > > > as the bootloader in 7.1? Where to from here? > > Michael > > lilo.conf > +++++++++++++++++++ > boot=/dev/hda > map=/boot/map > install=/boot/boot.b > vga=normal > default=linux > keytable=/boot/us.klt > lba32 > prompt > nowarn > timeout=60 > message=/boot/message > menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw > ignore-table > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-6mdk > label=linux > root=/dev/hda2 > initrd=/boot/initrd.img > append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi" > vga=788 > read-only > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.15-4mdk > label=linux7.1 > root=/dev/hdb5 > append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi" > vga=788 > read-only > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-6mdk > label=linux-nonfb > root=/dev/hda2 > initrd=/boot/initrd.img > append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi" > read-only > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-6mdk > label=failsafe > root=/dev/hda2 > initrd=/boot/initrd.img > append="failsafe devfs=nomount hdd=ide-scsi" > read-only > other=/dev/hda1 > label=windows > table=/dev/hda > other=/dev/fd0 > label=floppy > unsafe -- Michael
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