Re: Trouble with Lilo, Grub, Redhat, and Debian

From: Jerome R. Acks (jracksjr_at_bellatlantic.net)
Date: 10/19/03

  • Next message: David Crane: "Re: More on spam" 
    Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2003 10:22:22 -0400
To: John Schofield <schof@jpreng.com>

    On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 10:47:46PM -0700, John Schofield wrote:
    >
    > I'm working on a Pentium III system with two IDE hard drives.
    >
    > I had Red Hat 8 installed on /dev/hda2, with /boot mounted on
    > /dev/hda1. Booting via grub.
    >
    > I installed Debian Woody on /dev/hdb2. /dev/hdb3 is swap, and
    > /dev/hdb1 is a partition on which I'm building a Linux From Scratch
    > system.
    >
    > Debian boots no problem after Lilo installed, however, Red Hat no
    > longer boots.

    Please post your /etc/lilo.conf.

    Once you boot to Debian, you can mount /dev/hda1 and determine what
    the Red Hat filenames are.

    Alternative: install grub from Debian. Then use the update-grub script to
    help build a /boot/grub/menu.lst that includes all your bootable
    kernels.

    >
    > I'm not at all sure what I'm doing with Lilo. My problem is compounded
    > by the fact that I didn't record the grub settings before Lilo wiped
    > them, and can't seem to mount the /boot partition on /dev/hda1 to find
    > out the correct path for the image and initrd. (I'm running the latest
    > kernel as installed by Red Hat.)
    >
    > Any ideas as to what I need to look at to figure out what I need to to
    > next? (Anybody know what the image and initrd lines SHOULD say for my
    > version of RedHat?)
    >
    > Any ideas why I can't get boot to mount? I enter "mount /dev/hda1
    > /mnt/temp2" and get "Invalid MFT record 0 Mount: Wrongs FS type, bad
    > option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, or too many mounted file
    > systems."

    Are you root when you try this?

    Assuming ext2 files system:

    # mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt

    >
    >
    > Thanks a bunch!
    >
    > Schof
    >
    >
    > John Schofield
    > Apple Certified Technical Coordinator
    > Macintosh, PC, and Unix Computer Support
    > www.officemechanic.com
    >
    >
    > 

    -- 
Jerome



    -- 
To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org 
with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org
  • Next message: David Crane: "Re: More on spam"

    Relevant Pages

    • Re: redhat 6.1 dual boot
      ... My Red Hat 7.3 setup has a graphical lilo prompt where you can use the arrows to choose which OS to boot. ... I bought the redhat 6.1 package about 8 years ago and have done nothing more than install and uninstall. ... Is there any way that I can add instructions in /etc/lilo.conf which would allow me to have lilo diplay "linux" on one line and "dos" on another without timing out and automatically booting Linux if the tab key is not activated? ...
      (linux.redhat)
    • Re: Alternative booting
      ... if the IDE controller only had optical drives, but if it had a hard ... then lilo would install to the wrong drive if it was a SCSI ... it boots fine. ...
      (Fedora)
    • Re: Why all the futzing with boot loaders
      ... Now apt-get dist-upgrade _removes_ a working GRUB and installs a non-working LILO; ... There are a few situations, if I recall correctly, where lilo worked but grub didn't. ... IMHO, grub is a HUGE improvement over lilo, because you can have multiple boot options configured simultaneously, so if you screw up a new kernel install, you can always boot from the old one. ... Secondary loader: 19 sectors. ...
      (Debian-User)
    • RE: Problems to Install Oracle Client 10g over Red Hat AS 3.0update3
      ... Oracle 10g R1 DB go out of memory once in a while goes for a toss till it ... "General Red Hat Linux discussion list" ... Problems to Install Oracle Client 10g over Red Hat AS 3.0update3 ...
      (RedHat)
    • Re: Time to start Linuxing..some questions?
      ... me on the net to download the rest..advice on how to bootstrap a raw ... Red Hat Enterprise Linux and its relations (e.g., ... So I do not install Apache, Samba, most of the other servers, though I do ...
      (comp.os.linux.misc)