Re: Debian on 2 partions and lilo

[Andrei Smirnov <andrei.s@myrealbox.com>]

On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 12:14:07PM -0800, Kris wrote:
> Ok  here is my format
> 
> I have 3 partitions on 1 drive
> hda1 full debian os
> hda2 mini debian to make cd image
> hda3 swap
> 
> I don't seem to be able to get lilo to work correctly.  Here is a sample of
> my lilo.conf on my hda1 drive
> 
> lba32
> boot=/dev/hda1
> install=/boot/boot.b
> map=/boot/map
> delay=20
> vga=normal
> append="apm=on"
> default=makecd
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18
>          label=makecd
>          root=/dev/hda1
> 
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-486
>          label=tobeburned
>          read-only
>          root=/dev/hda2
> 
> When I boot it seems that my system is looking for /lib/modules for 2.4.18
> yet this kernel is not installed on my hda1 at all.  Now I have no small
> root partition but do I need to in order to run 2 versions of debian on the
> same drive in 2 different partitions.
as far as i can understand a Debian on a partition means that this partition
is a root partition- so you got 2 roots right?
then - when you boot your second label=tobeburned, /lib/modules
resides on /dev/hda2 ...