Re: Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-27 Thread Kent West
Vijaya S wrote: Exactly i dont get the prompt..how do i get it back? Kent West wrote: Vijaya S wrote: lba32 boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda3 install=/boot/boot-menu.b map=/boot/map menu-title=" Demo machine" delay=20 vga=normal default=debian Right about this area, add the two lines: pro

Re: Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-27 Thread Alvin Oga
On Wed, 28 Jul 2004, Vijaya S wrote: > Exactly i dont get the prompt..how do i get it back? add the prompt back in and also wait 5 seconds before booting ( delay and timeout is interchanged sometimes ) c ya alvin > > >Demo:/home/vijaya# cat /etc/lilo.conf > > >lba32 > > >boot=/dev/hda

Re: Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-27 Thread Vijaya S
Exactly i dont get the prompt..how do i get it back? Kent West wrote: > Vijaya S wrote: > > >Hi kent, > >Could u pls help me in this > >I am nt able to get he lilo options of debian and mandrake although i have the > >entries in lilo.conf. > >I get no errors when i run lilo > >Demo:/home/vijaya#

Re: Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-27 Thread Kent West
Vijaya S wrote: Hi kent, Could u pls help me in this I am nt able to get he lilo options of debian and mandrake although i have the entries in lilo.conf. I get no errors when i run lilo Demo:/home/vijaya# cat /etc/lilo.conf lba32 boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda3 install=/boot/boot-menu.b map=/boot/map

Re: Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-26 Thread Vijaya S
Hi kent, Could u pls help me in this I am nt able to get he lilo options of debian and mandrake although i have the entries in lilo.conf. I get no errors when i run lilo Demo:/home/vijaya# cat /etc/lilo.conf lba32 boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda3 install=/boot/boot-menu.b map=/boot/map menu-title=" Dem

Re: Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Mon, Jul 26, 2004 at 08:28:02PM +0800, John Summerfield wrote: > Hendrik Boom wrote: > > >(2) This one's for curiosity only, because I will be replacing my Mandrake > >soon (which I currently boot from floppy only). When I installed > >Mandrake, it used the device name /dev/hde for my hard dis

Re: Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-26 Thread John Summerfield
Hendrik Boom wrote: On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 09:33:41AM -0500, Kent West wrote: Vijaya S wrote: It didnt work Kent. But it has to be mounted before i see it right No; you don't need to mount your Mandrake partitions in order to change the /etc/lilo.conf file on your Debian side. Sinc

Re: Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-26 Thread Hendrik Boom
On Fri, Jul 23, 2004 at 09:33:41AM -0500, Kent West wrote: > Vijaya S wrote: > > >It didnt work Kent. > >But it has to be mounted before i see it right > > > > > No; you don't need to mount your Mandrake partitions in order to change > the /etc/lilo.conf file on your Debian side. Since Debian is

Re: Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-26 Thread Vijaya S
hi silvan, IT was successfully mounted and i added the mandrake image to lilo.conf image=/vmlinuz label=Debian root=/dev/hda3 #Initrd=/boot/initrd.img read-only # restricted # alias=1 image=/mandrake/boot/vmlinuz label=Mandrake root=/dev/

Re: Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-26 Thread RickTaylor
Vijaya, > Thanks but i crashed my machine while playing around with lilo.So i am > reinstalling it all over again. > First is mandrake then debian > But i have a doubt while installing debian there is an option "make system > bootable" At the end of the install it will offer you the option to add

Re: Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-26 Thread Vijaya S
Hi Kent, Thanks but i crashed my machine while playing around with lilo.So i am reinstalling it all over again. First is mandrake then debian But i have a doubt while installing debian there is an option "make system bootable" And we get two choices . Since i have mandrake first and then debian whi

Re: Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-23 Thread Kent West
Vijaya S wrote: It didnt work Kent. But it has to be mounted before i see it right No; you don't need to mount your Mandrake partitions in order to change the /etc/lilo.conf file on your Debian side. Since Debian is the last OS installed, I'm assuming that your current lilo is from Debian, not

Re: Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-23 Thread Vijaya S
i get the error demo:/boot# mount -t ext3 /dev/hda1 /mnt/ mount: fs type ext3 not supported by kernel cnad when i check my cat /proc/filesystems demo:/boot# cat /proc/filesystems ext2 msdos vfat nodev proc nodev nfs iso9660 nodev devpts Vijaya Silvan wrote:

Re: Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-23 Thread Vijaya S
It didnt work Kent. But it has to be mounted before i see it right So i treid to mkdir /mandrake mount -t auto /dev/hda1 /mandrake and then edit /etc/lilo.conf but i get this error demo:/# mount -t auto /dev/hda1 /mandrake mount: fs type ext3 not supported by kernel so i tried using tune2fs to conv

Re: Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-23 Thread Vijaya S
Hi But when i am trying to mount the /dev/hda1 to /mandrake it says the following error demo:/# mount -t auto /dev/hda1 /mandrake mount: fs type ext3 not supported by kernel Regards, Vijaya Silvan wrote: > On Thursday 22 July 2004 01:55 pm, Vijaya S wrote: > > >Device Boot Start

Re: Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-22 Thread Silvan
On Thursday 22 July 2004 01:55 pm, Vijaya S wrote: >Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 * 1 211641024+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda2 21165 23287 10699925 Extended > /dev/hda3 23288 42663 9765504

Re: Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-22 Thread Kent West
Vijaya S wrote: Hi all, Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77545 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 211641024+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2

Urgent :Dual boot Debian+Mandrake with lilo

2004-07-22 Thread Vijaya S
Hi all, Disk /dev/hda: 40.0 GB, 40020664320 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 77545 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 * 1 211641024+ 83 Linux /dev/hda2 21165