Hello,
I have installed Red Hat 7.1 (Seawolf), after having used Red 5.2 and
6.0 previously; also I have used SuSE 6.4, and the LNXBBC Linux (lnxbbc.org),
a little. I lost a 30-gig hard drive when I installed Windows 2000 on it; I
had transferred everything I had archived from a six-gig Win98 hard drive,
and another hard drive--and when Windows 2000 died, it munched the 30-gig
drive, rendering it useless. I lost everything! But I still have the two
6-gig hard drives, so on the first drive I installed Red Hat 7.1.
The fonts in Red Hat are ugly; especially in the browser, and the KDE
mail client, etc. etc. etc. I guess I got used to the "SuSE Linux" 6.4
fonts, or something. Anyway, I installed SuSE 6.4 onto the second hard drive,
so that I could boot it, and understand what the difference is between the
two systems, so that I could get better results from Red Hat. I have already
seen the "Font De-Uglification" HOWTO, and the other HOWTOs about
transferring fonts from MS-Windows to Linux; the results are still not as
good nor as well set up as SuSE (but I like Red Hat Linux better, despite the
ugly fonts!) Is it possible that SuSE is using a proprietary version of the
X-window drivers? Anyway........:
My problem is that I wish to boot either drive using LILO. I have LILO
all set up to boot the first hard drive; however I cannot get it to boot the
second drive -- it seems to want to use Red Hat's kernel and map files; I
cannot figure out how to make LILO see the files on the second hard drive!
I *could* copy the SuSE kernel and necessary files over to the first
drive, into the /boot directory -- but I don't want to.
I CAN boot the SuSE hard drive just fine with a boot floppy, so there is
no hurry, here; I just want to figure this out, without having to join a
"LILO" mailing list or whatever (I've read all the documentation I can find
on LILO; it gets pretty severe at times.) I am already subscribed to a
couple-dozen mailing lists; it is hard to keep up! :-)
Here is my /etc/lilo.conf file (my attempts to boot the second hard
drive with SuSE on it are commented out, because I couldn't get LILO to work
unless I do this). The SuSE boot stanzas are made from the LILO.CONF file
that is automatically created when you install SuSE:
----------
boot = /dev/hda
map = /boot/map
install = /boot/boot.b
read-only
prompt
timeout = 50
message = /boot/message
default = linux
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2
label = linux
root = /dev/hda1
# image = /boot/vmlinuz
# label = suse
# root = /dev/hdb3
# initrd = /boot/initrd
# image = /boot/vmlinuz.suse
# label = suse.suse
# root = /dev/hdb3
# initrd = /boot/initrd.suse
----------
SuSE makes two kernels when you install, for some strange reason. Both
seem to be identical; but this is probably done to facilitate automatically
upgrading to a new kernel from a desktop or something (I never did that when
I was using SuSE).
Also, that "message" line in the LILO.CONF file, that is, I think, what
causes that dopey red-colored "Red Hat Linux" boot screen appear. Can I just
#comment# it out for the next time I run LILO, or do I have to "rebuild" the
map file first (probably by deleting it)? I am uncertain if I understood
this point properly in the manual page.
Thanks in advance,
--Mark Seven Smith
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