Re: Booting 2 Linuxes with LILO

[alberto <albertobig@libero.it>]

Thanks so much. 
I  have a couple of questions: 

Can I follow a similar procedure while I have the root mounted? 

I booted into woody and had /dev/hda1 mounted as root
I then mounted potato on /mnt/potato, as you suggest. 
     woody: $ lilo -C /mnt/woody/lilo.conf.mbr
went OK 

     woody: $ lilo -r /mnt/potato
told me it was expecting a different version of LILO

     woody: $ lilo 
issued a fatal error. 
Then I tried mounting /dev/hda1 under /mnt/woody and did: 
     woody: $ lilo -r /mnt/woody 
It was OK. 

Still, I can boot Potato, despite the error message. 
It won't bood woody, though! 

Could I maybe just have the woody's lilo.conf handle all, without the need of 
the mbr lilo? 

alberto. 



>
     mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/woody
>     lilo -r /mnt/woody
>
>     mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/potato
>     lilo -r /mnt/potato
>
>     lilo -C /mnt/woody/lilo.conf.mbr
>
 

On Monday 02 December 2002 03:06 pm, Sebastian Kuzminsky wrote:
> alberto <albertobig@libero.it> wrote:
> ] I have 2 debians installed on my system but I'm having troubles with
> having ] LILO allowing me to boot any of those.
> ]
> ] I have  potato on  /dev/hda3.
> ] I just erased  win on  /dev/hda1 :-))  and installed  Woody there.
> ]
> ] Now, Woody's LILO offers me a prompt to boot the old potato, but won't
> make ] it: If I try, it will stop at
> ]    LIL-
> ]
> ] What is the correct way to have woody's LILO load my potato on /dev/hda3?
> ] I'd also love to keep the subchoiches there for different kernels.
>
>
> Here's how i do it...
>
> On Woody i have two lilo.conf files, one for the MBR and one for the
> Woody partition.  The MBR one i call lilo.conf.mbr.  On Potato i have
> just one lilo.conf file, for the Potato partition.
>
>
> Woody lilo.conf.mbr:
>
>     lba32
>     boot=/dev/hda
>     install=/boot/boot-menu.b
>     map=/boot/map
>     prompt
>     timeout=50
>
>     other=/dev/hda3
>         label="Woody"
>
>     other=/dev/hda2
>         label="Potato"
>
>     other=/dev/hda1
>         label="Windows"
>
>
>
>
> Woody lilo.conf:
>
>     lba32
>     boot=/dev/hda3
>     install=/boot/boot-menu.b
>     map=/boot/map
>     #prompt
>     #timeout=50
>
>     root=/dev/hda3
>     read-only
>
>     image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20
>         label=2.4.20
>
>     image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19
>         label=2.4.19
>
>
> The Potato lilo.conf looks a lot like the Woody lilo.conf.
>
>
> You need to install the boot blocks for the partitions you want to boot,
> then for the MBR.  I usually boot from a CD or something (KNOPPIX!) to set
> everything up:
>
>     mount /dev/hda3 /mnt/woody
>     lilo -r /mnt/woody
>
>     mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/potato
>     lilo -r /mnt/potato
>
>     lilo -C /mnt/woody/lilo.conf.mbr
>
>
>
>
> That should do it...
>
>
>
>
> Sebastian

-- 

alberto.