HD Install :: Multi-linux install



searching the forums will give you some guidance:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/cgi-bin....ltiboot

http://www.rt.com/man/lilo.5.html


...that took about 1  minute to do. I'm not being a smart a$$, just suggesting that searching the forums is a really good way to find things out.
OK, I'll give that another go. Seems like everything I find leads to Grub. Hell, Lilo is simple plain english, Grub is mainly code. I don't know enough about linux to do the grub thing yet. I think I had the setup earlier. I just have to put the numbers & letters after Vmlinuz on the Ubuntu line & boot. Thanks for the help & for not suggesting grub.
I prefer Lilo as well.....   :;):
Any idea how to set up the second linux in it? I can give the directions to /dev/hd8 vmlinuzk, boot folder with numbers & all. I've tried everything. When It says it takes an adds Ubuntu & I choose it to boot, I end up in dsl. There is somehow, somewhere that I read to end /dev/ root from first of lilo & make new /dev/boot, but I can't find it. Any one who knows? Help please. Thank you.
ok, I am assuming you already have lilo installed, it just isn't booting what you need. you need to creat a proper lilo.conf file. here is an example of a working multi linux config file:

prompt
timeout=6000
default=Slackware10
vga=791
boot=/dev/hda

lba32

#bitmap             = /boot/yoper_boot.bmp
#bmp-colors         = 1,,0,2,,0
#bmp-table          = 120p,173p,1,15,17
#bmp-timer          = 254p,432p,1,0,0


other=/dev/hda1
label=Windows2K

image = /boot/slack
 root = /dev/hda7
 label = Slackware10
 read-only
 
image=/mnt/dsl/boot/linux24
label=DSL
       root=/dev/hda8
       read-only

image=/mnt/yoper/boot/yos
label=YOS
       read-only
       root=/dev/hda9
append = "splash=silent "
initrd=/mnt/yoper/boot/initrd-2.6.8.1-3.img

Now this file was edited and created in my slackware partition. note that the slackware entry does not reference any mounted devices.
Now here is the gotcha with lilo:
on the os you run it from, llilo must be able to see all the referenced os's. So I have mount points created and fstab setup to see all my os partitions.
in your case, you would being doing lilo in dsl, so your lilo config would look something like this:
NOTE! you must create a /mnt/ubu folder and mount ubuntu there, or this will not work. (mount /dev/hda8  /mnt/ubu -o t=auto ro,auto,users) should be ok. if you already have the ubuntu assigned to a mount point, then correct the line to match your mount point.
Also you need to determine the kernel image file ubuntu uses and put that in the first stanza, where I put the commented note.
When done, open a root console, and type lilo. you should see 3 "added" lines for the 3 os's and no errors. next boot should show you the 3 options with a 60 minute timeout.

prompt
timeout=6000
default=DSL
vga=791
boot=/dev/hda

lba32

#bitmap             =
#bmp-colors         = 1,,0,2,,0
#bmp-table          = 120p,173p,1,15,17
#bmp-timer          = 254p,432p,1,0,0


other=/dev/hda1
label=Windows98
 
image=/boot/linux24
label=DSL
       root=/dev/hda10
       read-only

image=/mnt/ubu/ubuntu  # change this to the linux kernel it boots
label=Ubuntu
       read-only
       root=/dev/hda8
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