HD Install :: Lilo edit



Quote (somerville32@hotmail.com @ Oct. 17 2004,21:06)
Remind me to add a FAQ about this tomorrow. I am going to bed now :)

Reminder: Generate a FAQ that explains how to multiboot with DSL.  (My DSL HD install trashed my Fedora GRUB boot loader.  I would like to be able to boot both OS's.  Since LILO is the current boot loader, what is the syntax to add the Fedora (hda1=/boot, hda2=/, hda3=swap) OS to lilo.conf ? )
http://www.rt.com/man/lilo.5.html

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It might look as follows:

             boot = /dev/hda
             delay = 40
             compact
             vga = normal
             root = /dev/hda1
             read-only
             image = /zImage-2.5.99
                     label = try
             image = /zImage-1.0.9
                     label = 1.0.9
             image = /tamu/vmlinuz
                  label = tamu
                  root = /dev/hdb2
                  vga = ask
             other = /dev/hda3
                  label = dos
                  table = /dev/hda



My Fedora Core 1 looks like this
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[root@localhost etc]# cat lilo.conf.anaconda        
prompt                                              
timeout=50                                          
default=linux                                      
boot=/dev/hda                                      
map=/boot/map                                      
install=/boot/boot.b                                
linear                                              
                                                   
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl              
       label=linux                                
       initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img  
       read-only                                  
       append="rhgb root=LABEL=/"


remember to type "lilo" after making any changes to make them permanent

Brian
AwPhuch
Quote (AwPhuch @ Oct. 29 2004,00:39)
http://www.rt.com/man/lilo.5.html

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It might look as follows:

             boot = /dev/hda
             delay = 40
             compact
             vga = normal
             root = /dev/hda1
             read-only
             image = /zImage-2.5.99
                     label = try
             image = /zImage-1.0.9
                     label = 1.0.9
             image = /tamu/vmlinuz
                  label = tamu
                  root = /dev/hdb2
                  vga = ask
             other = /dev/hda3
                  label = dos
                  table = /dev/hda



My Fedora Core 1 looks like this
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[root@localhost etc]# cat lilo.conf.anaconda        
prompt                                              
timeout=50                                          
default=linux                                      
boot=/dev/hda                                      
map=/boot/map                                      
install=/boot/boot.b                                
linear                                              
                                                   
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl              
       label=linux                                
       initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img  
       read-only                                  
       append="rhgb root=LABEL=/"


remember to type "lilo" after making any changes to make them permanent

Brian
AwPhuch

So what finally worked was to use some of the lilo.conf.anaconda entries from the Fedora2 installation, AND add a line to fstab that mounts the Fedora boot partition.  Lilo.conf entries needed to be modified to account for the location of the Fedora boot images (/mnt/fedora/vmlinuz-2.6.8....)

Thanks to all for the suggestions.  I would still would rather use GRUB...
Quote (reid_geo @ Oct. 30 2004,21:11)
So what finally worked was to use some of the lilo.conf.anaconda entries from the Fedora2 installation, AND add a line to fstab that mounts the Fedora boot partition.  Lilo.conf entries needed to be modified to account for the location of the Fedora boot images (/mnt/fedora/vmlinuz-2.6.8....)

Thanks to all for the suggestions.  I would still would rather use GRUB...

I agree...I wonder if you could install grub and get it to work?

So what did your lilo.conf finally look like?

Brian
AwPhuch
Quote (AwPhuch @ Oct. 31 2004,00:16)
Quote (reid_geo @ Oct. 30 2004,21:11)
So what finally worked was to use some of the lilo.conf.anaconda entries from the Fedora2 installation, AND add a line to fstab that mounts the Fedora boot partition.  Lilo.conf entries needed to be modified to account for the location of the Fedora boot images (/mnt/fedora/vmlinuz-2.6.8....)

Thanks to all for the suggestions.  I would still would rather use GRUB...

I agree...I wonder if you could install grub and get it to work?

So what did your lilo.conf finally look like?

Brian
AwPhuch

Here is the whole mess - first /etc/fstab, then the relevant parts of lilo.conf.

My method was to mount the Fedora2 Core partition via the command line as well as /etc/fstab, and then use those partitions in lilo.conf to define a new OS/kernel section.  

I was then able to successfully run lilo to update the boot loader conffiguration.

/dev/hda
/dev/hda1 Fedora /boot
/dev/hda2 Fedora /
/dev/hda3 swap
/dev/hda4 DSL 0.83

# /etc/fstab: filesystem table.
#
# filesystem  mountpoint  type  options  dump  pass
/dev/hda4  /  ext2  defaults,errors=remount-ro  0  1
proc  /proc  proc  defaults  0  0
/dev/fd0  /floppy  vfat  defaults,user,noauto,showexec,umask=022  0  0
/dev/cdrom  /cdrom  iso9660  defaults,ro,user,noexec,noauto  0  0
# partitions found by dsl
#/dev/hda1 /mnt/hda1 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
#/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
#/dev/hda4 /mnt/hda4 ext2 noauto,users,exec 0 0
/dev/hda1 /mnt/fedora ext2 defaults,errors=remount-ro 0 1
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda2 /mnt/hda2 ext3 noauto,users,exec 0 0
# Added by KNOPPIX
/dev/hda3 none swap defaults 0 0

**********************************************************
#lilo.conf

default=Linux

image=/boot/linux24
label=Linux

read-only
# restricted
# alias=1

image=/vmlinuz.old
label=LinuxOLD
read-only
optional
# restricted
# alias=2

image=/mnt/fedora/vmlinuz-2.6.8-1.521
root=/dev/hda1
label=Fedora2
initrd=/mnt/fedora/initrd-2.6.8-1.521.img
read-only
append="rhgb root=LABEL=/"
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