Re: lilo problem

ajlewis2_at_intac.com
Date: 09/17/03

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Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2003 06:58:55 -0400

    In linux.debian.user, you wrote:
    > Hi,
    >
    > I have installed debain (woody) next to my current dist (mandrake 9.1).
    > I added entries to mandrakes lilo.conf so that I could boot both debian
    > and mandrake, I am sick of mandrake and want to completely switch to
    > debian.
    >
    > I get the following error message when running lilo (on mandrake):
    >
    > Added linux *
    > Added linux-nonfb
    > Added failsafe
    > Added windows
    > Added floppy
    > Added OldMandrake
    > Fatal: open /vmlinuz: No such file or directory
    >
    > The last two entries in (mandrakes) /etc/lilo.conf:
    >
    > image=/boot/vmlinuz
    > label="OldMandrake"
    > root=/dev/hdc1
    > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img
    > read-only
    > image=/vmlinuz
    > label="Debian"
    > root=/dev/hdc8
    > boot=/dev/hdc8
    > install=/boot/boot.b
    > map=/boot/map
    > read-only
    >
    > What should I do?

    You are running this while in Mandrake; so mount hdc8 so that lilo can get
    to the kernel. I don't know about putting that boot=/dev/hdc8 in there. I
    would take that and map=/boot/map out of there as well as the
    install=/boot/boot.b. Change the first part of the stanza to:

    image=/mnt/vmlinuz (that is most likely a link to the kernel in /boot)

    Then
    mount /dev/hdc8 /mnt

    And try /sbin/lilo again.

    I usually just copy the kernel and the System.map from /boot of the second
    distro into /boot of the one I am using to do lilo. Then my line for all of
    them is image=/boot/vmlinuz-whatever-it-is.

    Anita 

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