[SWLUG] lilo headache

[Dafydd Walters]

Gareth,

Perhaps you could try the following:

1. Fire your PC up into Suse and log in as root.

2. Locate the lilo.conf file, and add an entry for 'Red Hat Linux' to the
bottom of the file as follows:

  image = /boot/vmlinuz  # your zImage file
  root = /dev/hda2     # partition containing the kernel
  label = Red Hat Linux        # name to appear on menu

3. Run /sbin/lilo at the command prompt to propagate the lilo.conf changes
to your Master Boot Record.

4. Reboot.  The initial boot menu should now include Red Hat Linux
(depending on how you've got lilo configured, you may not get a menu; just a
LILO: prompt.  If this is the case, just hit Tab to see the list of
choices).

Regards,
Dafydd.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Gareth Lewis" <Gareth.Lewis at patent.gov.uk>
To: <discuss at swlug.org.uk>
Sent: Wednesday, December 18, 2002 2:34 AM
Subject: [SWLUG] lilo headache


> Hi,
>
> I'm spent two days being very stupid with lilo and i need some help !
>
> I've got a disc with these primary partitions :
>
> 1st - (as extended & logical drives for about 34 GB with suse 7.3) = hda1,
5-11(maybe)
>
> 2nd - ( an ext2 80 meg partion as /boot for red hat 7.3)  hda2
>
> 3nd - (the root for all the rest of redhat 7.3 - ext3) hda3
>
> Suse boots fine from lilo which sits on the mbr of this disc.
> Redhat boots fine from the boot floppy that the installer created.
>
> How do I get lilo to boot redhat ?   is it even possible ?
>
> I was going to get redhat to put grub on the disc, BUT I'm very wary of
letting it try because the red-hat intstaller  keeps complaining that it
can't align(?) the partition table. AND when I get to the grub config
screen - it hasn't noticed that I;ve got suse on the disc (it finds win 98
on the other disc in the machine ok).   grub on suse 7.3 seems to be broken.
>
> anyone got a lilo.conf where they boot from a mbr lilo to totally separate
linux distros on the same disc ???
>
> could I get lilo to boot grub/lilo from the boot partition of hda2 ???
>
> have I got a broken partition table ? (looks ok-ish from fdisk) BUT  i did
do something odd with the disc,  it used to have a jumper to set it to 32gb
only (for a non lba bios i think) and this has been removed - every thing
still works fine except the above.
>
> Gareth.
>