HD Install :: Lilo edit

Installed DSL 0.7.3 to hda2 with RH8 on hda1. I have set RH to boot with lilo. When I edit /ect/lilo.conf and run /sbin/lilo I get an error message which says it cannot recognize the boot signature for hda2 (dsl). Any ideas how I can modify /etc/lilo.conf to indentify the boot signature.

Thanks

I don't a whole lot about linux yet but i think one of the easiest ways might be how I did it. Every time I loaded a new distro on my PC (six at once as it were) I used the new distro boot loader and just modified it with the other distros stuff.

Create a mount point for dsl on redhat. ex /mnt/dsl
then for lilo use something like:

boot = mnt/ds/boot

in the stanzas, any ref to dsl in the boot stanzas must be prefixed with the mount point. then run lilo, it will now be able to find the correct blocks to build the loader for that distro.

you can make it a temp mount point til you run lilo and it builds itself, after that it's not needed til the next lilo build. I put fstab entries in my other distros, so I can read the others, and if I make any changes, don;t have to remember to remount 2or 3 other distro's temporarily to run lilo.

Thanks. Let see if I can get this to work.

Remind me to add a FAQ about this tomorrow. I am going to bed now

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