Re: [SLE] dual boot for two distro in lilo menu - it should be easy but doesn't work
From: Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva (adagilson_at_cpqam.fiocruz.br)
Date: 05/20/04
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Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 09:05:13 -0300 To: SLE <suse-linux-e@suse.com>
Thanks for replying, Vince!
I prefer SuSE LILO and, as I said, it have been edited to put
"slackware" as another option in /etc/lilo.conf (SuSE).
Vince Littler escreveu:
>On Wednesday 19 May 2004 7:28 pm, Adagilson Batista Bispo da Silva wrote:
>
>
>>sorry, I don't understand yet what is missing in my lilo.conf (SuSE in
>>/dev/hda6) to make my option "slackware" bootable. Slackware is in
>>/dev/hda10 and the option "linux" (for SuSE) is booting.
>>I can boot slackware with the cd-rom and entering:
>>$bare.i root=/dev/hda10 noinitrd ro
>>If I can boot with CD-ROM, so there is nothing wrong with the slackware
>>partition. So, how could I make it bootable too, via boot menu of SuSE?
>>Thanks for any help
>>a.
>>To understand my situation take a look at:
>>http://lists.suse.com/archive/suse-linux-e/2004-May/2581.html
>>
>>
>[...]
>So assuming that you will work with the SUSE LILO, you must refer to
>everything as seen by SUSE, even the Slackware. For example your SUSE
>lilo.conf includes:
>
>image = /boot/vmlinuz
> label = linux
> append = "hdc=ide-scsi"
> initrd = /boot/initrd
> root = /dev/hda6
> vga = 788
>
>image = /boot/vmlinuz
> label = slackware
> root = /dev/hda10
> vga = normal
> read-only
>
>image = /boot/vmlinuz.suse
> label = failsafe
> append = "ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off hdc=ide-scsi"
> initrd = /boot/initrd.suse
> optional
> root = /dev/hda6
> vga = 788
>
>which says these things:
>
>1] Your SUSE partition is /hda6 and slackware is /hda10
>
>2] Your main SUSE kernel is /boot/vmlinuz and initrd is /boot/initrd as seen
>by SUSE
>
>3] Your failsafe SUSE kernel is /boot/vmlinuz.suse and initrd is /boot/
>initrd.suse as seen by SUSE
>
>4] Your Slackware kernel is your main SUSE kernel with no initrd
>
>You may have reason to boot Slackware with a SUSE kernel, but if SUSE requires
>the initrd, so would Slackware. More likely, you want to run Slackware with
>its own kernel. If this is the case, you must mount the partition with the
>Slackware kernel in SUSE and give the path to the kernel as SUSE sees it in
>lilo.conf, before running LILO in SUSE.
>
>
Checking lilo.conf (SLACK) build by Slackware itself, I can't see none
initrd. Booting with CD-ROM the kernel bare.i works fine to me. I just
have to enter manually:
bare.i root=/dev/hda10 noinitrd ro
(IMHO, it seems that it doesn't use initrd. Isn't it?!)
Trying to boot via SuSE LILO menu (option slackware) this error is
appearing:
Boot: /dev/hda10, loader /boot/chain.b
Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda10 doesn't have a valid boot signature
or yet
Kernel panic: VFS: unable to mount boot FS on 03:10a
Some more ideas?
[],
a.
>
>
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