[expert] lilo question
I had to rebuild my windoz partition on my desktop and the lilo does not point to the proper windoz file. How do I fix this? thanks Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] lilo question
On Mon, 20 May 2002, Dodd, David J wrote: I had to rebuild my windoz partition on my desktop and the lilo does not point to the proper windoz file. How do I fix this? thanks Hi David, put the Mandrake 8.2 disk 1 into the CDROM and boot the CD. at the install prompt that comes up type rescue and hit ENTER. when things get done loading the routine into memory you'll be presented with a menu. from the menu choose repair/reinstall lilo boot loader. reboot your machine and all should be just fine. -- daRcmaTTeR -- Registered Linux User #186492 Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Lilo Question?
I don't know about a version of LILO, per se, but there are other boot managers out there. The thing is, you still need to use LILO. A good, "intuitive" boot manager is OS-BS, which is located at http://www.prz.tu-berlin.de/~wolf/os-bs.html There's the old, free, "beta" version which works perfectly well, or there's the new, non-freeware version with extra features. You can't order through the website, though- you need to buy it through one of his resellers. This isn't LILO, though, and you still need a program (i.e. LILO) that can load the kernel. The way I use this is to write LILO to the Linux root partition, and put this on the MBR. It works well enough; and the other people who use my computer, who are intimidated by LILO's unencumbered interface, find this much easier on them. Oh yeah, I use the free version. -Matt Stegman [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Allen Denton wrote: I have seen a graphical or at least a lilo that you can use arrow keys for your selections before. Anybody know were I can get that, or am I dreaming?
Re: [expert] Lilo Question?
Allen Denton wrote: I have seen a graphical or at least a lilo that you can use arrow keys for your selections before. Anybody know were I can get that, or am I dreaming? Are you talking of Klilo maybe? find it at any mandrake mirror, in the RPMS dir Enjoy! -- M A N D R A K E "The friendliest LINUX Distro" Time is in Our Side --- Any Resistence is futile - You are being Asimilated
[expert] Lilo question...
I added RH 6.1 to my mix of Mandrake 6.0 and Win98. Here is the layout: /dev/hda1 - win98 /dev/hdb1 - Mandrake /boot /dev/hdb2 - Mandrake / /dev/hdc - CDROM /dev/hdd1 - RH /boot /dev/hdd2 - RH / I have lilo installed on /dev/hda , and I'm able to boot LM and 98, but I can't get lilo working correctly to allow me to boot RH. I am thinking that I need to do the following: add the following to /etc/lilo.conf (on LM) other=/dev/hdd label=rhlinux Then, try to install lilo onto /dev/hdd . I tried, while booted into LM, using the -r and -C options w/ lilo to install it onto /dev/hdd , but was unable to do so. Does anyone have the patience to let me know what is the best way to get lilo configured? Thanks, Chris
Re: [expert] Lilo question...
Christopher Quale wrote: I added RH 6.1 to my mix of Mandrake 6.0 and Win98. Here is the layout: /dev/hda1 - win98 /dev/hdb1 - Mandrake /boot /dev/hdb2 - Mandrake / /dev/hdc - CDROM /dev/hdd1 - RH /boot /dev/hdd2 - RH / I have lilo installed on /dev/hda , and I'm able to boot LM and 98, but I can't get lilo working correctly to allow me to boot RH. I am thinking that I need to do the following: add the following to /etc/lilo.conf (on LM) other=/dev/hdd label=rhlinux No, you can't do this. "other" is for Microsoft OSes (and possibly OS/2 too). The way to do it is: 1. make your RH boot partition known to the Mandrake Linux by putting an entry in its fstab, e.g: /dev/hdd1 /mnt/RHboot ext2 ro 0 0 then mount it. 2. add to your Mandrake /etc/lilo.conf: image=/mnt/RHboot/vmlinuz-2.2.14 label=RH root=/dev/hdd2 read-only 3. execute lilo (generate the boot tables). 4. that's all, folks ! Explanation: the "image" you point the lilo entry to, must be found by lilo when it's executing (generating the boot tables) so you have to make the RH boot partition readable (read-only if you prefer) to your Mandrake linux, if you are executing lilo under Mandrake. Likewise if you want to execute lilo (generate boot tables) under RH, you have to make your Mandrake boot partition readable there. Hope this helps. -- Jean-Louis Debert[EMAIL PROTECTED] 74 Annemasse France old Linux fan
