Multiple linux distros on same disk??

From: Ishwar Rattan (rattan_at_cps.cmich.edu)
Date: 05/31/04


Date: 30 May 2004 17:08:15 -0700

The post won't let me quote previous responses, so, I will restate for
comments.
Disk config
/dev/hda1 swap
/dev/hda5 Mandrake-9.1
/dev/hda6 not in use
/dev/hda7 Debian/testing

Since the answer to more than one distro was yes, so I installed
debian on /dev/hda7 (as it also uses lilo..)

Adding to an entry in /etc/lilo.conf (for Mandrake-9.1 and untouched)
of the form

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5
      label="debian"
      root=/dev/hda7
      initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.5
      appned="debian kernel options"
      read-only

and an attempt to run /sbin/lilo results in error
Fatal: open /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.5: No such file directory

What is the way out? Am I intsalling debian wrong wrong?
-ishwar



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