Re: [newbie] Grub or Lilo
On Friday 26 December 2003 04:09, Russ wrote: Thats my problem. I tried to edit it but didn't have any luck. I guess I am asking for a how to on how to edit it. Did you remember to /sbin/lilo after you edited? Anne -- Registered Linux User No.293302 Have you visited http://twiki.mdklinuxfaq.org yet? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Grub or Lilo
Hi All, I posted before but this is sort of an update. Still need help. I am trying to get Grub to boot all the OS's I have installed. It appears to be a tricky thing to accomplish. Here is what I did: New Dell 4600 (3ghz, 512ram, 80gig HD) with XP Home installed. I added a 160 gig HD and made it master and the 80 a slave (XP has the whole 80gig drive). On the 160 I put Win98se on the first 40, then swap, then SuSE and finally Mandrake. Both SuSE and Mandrake are in their own single partition (I did not separate / and /Home). Steps; I installed Win98se, then I installed SuSE. The Win98 drive did not show up arigionally in Grub but I edited it and it worked fine then. My XP drive did show up but Grub will not boot it because it does not recognise the file system (is there a workaround for this?). I then installed Mandrake 9.2 and told it to skip the boot loader. Went back into SuSE and edited Grub again but no dice. Here is what I have: === # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Fri Dec 26 06:12:33 2003 gfxmenu (hd0,2)/boot/message timeout 8 default 0 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: SuSE### title SuSE kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 splash=silent desktop hdd=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Mandrake### title Mandrake kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 vga=0x317 splash=silent desktop hdd=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: XP_Home### title XP_Home root (hd1,0) chainloader +1 makeactive ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Win98se### title Win98se root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 makeactive ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Floppy### title Floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Failsafe### title Failsafe kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd === Anyone know what I am doing wrong? Here are the partitions: hda1 FAT32 Win98se hda2 swap hda3 SuSE hda4 extended hda5 Mandrake hdb1 XP Home NTFS Thanks Russ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Grub or Lilo
On Friday 26 December 2003 09:50 am, Russ wrote: Hi All, I posted before but this is sort of an update. Still need help. I am trying to get Grub to boot all the OS's I have installed. It appears to be a tricky thing to accomplish. Here is what I did: New Dell 4600 (3ghz, 512ram, 80gig HD) with XP Home installed. I added a 160 gig HD and made it master and the 80 a slave (XP has the whole 80gig drive). On the 160 I put Win98se on the first 40, then swap, then SuSE and finally Mandrake. Both SuSE and Mandrake are in their own single partition (I did not separate / and /Home). Steps; I installed Win98se, then I installed SuSE. The Win98 drive did not show up arigionally in Grub but I edited it and it worked fine then. My XP drive did show up but Grub will not boot it because it does not recognise the file system (is there a workaround for this?). I then installed Mandrake 9.2 and told it to skip the boot loader. Went back into SuSE and edited Grub again but no dice. Here is what I have: === # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Fri Dec 26 06:12:33 2003 gfxmenu (hd0,2)/boot/message timeout 8 default 0 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: SuSE### title SuSE kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=0x317 splash=silent desktop hdd=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Mandrake### title Mandrake kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5 vga=0x317 splash=silent desktop hdd=ide-scsi hddlun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,4)/boot/initrd ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: XP_Home### title XP_Home root (hd1,0) chainloader +1 makeactive ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Win98se### title Win98se root (hd0,0) chainloader +1 makeactive ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Floppy### title Floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 ###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: Failsafe### title Failsafe kernel (hd0,2)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd0,2)/boot/initrd === Anyone know what I am doing wrong? Here are the partitions: hda1 FAT32 Win98se hda2 swap hda3 SuSE hda4 extended hda5 Mandrake hdb1 XP Home NTFS Thanks Russ Change the Mandrake line to vga=normal and see if it works. I'm not sure what the problem is. Jim -- 10:01:01 up 15 days, 1:18, 1 user, load average: 0.69, 0.43, 0.27 Running Mandrake 9.2 - Linux - because life is too short for reboots... Registered Linux User: 181038 --http://counter.li.org Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] Grub or Lilo
Did that, didn't work. :-( Went through the install with Mandrake again so I could use it's boot loader. Now Mandrake boots but no SuSE. Although I do not understand all of what came up on the screen when I tried to boot SuSE but, there were a couple of lines that I noticed. It said something to the effect of no ext3 found. SuSE is on a Reiser file system and Mandrake is on an ext3. These were the defaults for each distro. I decided to let them do their thing. Is this a problem? Thanks Russ - Original Message - Change the Mandrake line to vga=normal and see if it works. I'm not sure what the problem is. Jim Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [newbie] GRUB eats LILO
ah, i see grasshopper. my computer is at least 2 years old i would say -- maybe closer to 3. i didn't know there was any BIOS related stuff. that will probably explain it then. thanks much Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cody Powell [EMAIL PROTECTED] 10:48:22 AM 12/7/00 The 1024 cylinder limitation shouldn't be a problem if you're using Lilo 0.21.4.2 and your BIOS supports EDD packet call extensions. If your motherboard is a few years old, it probably won't support EDD and then you'd still get that message. Cody Adrian Smith wrote: when installing 7.2 yesterday, i was going to try LILO instead of GRUB. however, LILO would not install due to 1024 cylinder limitation. i thought that boundry was eliminated. Adrian Smith 'de telepone dude Telecom Dept. x 7042 [EMAIL PROTECTED]
