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Re: Debian lilo won't boot Redhat



On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 13:39, Bijan Soleymani wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 12:51, Ross Boylan wrote:
> > To clarify: I mounted the red hat partitions under /red when running
> > Debian.  My understanding is the lilo's map, and so it's boot process,
> > use absolute disk locations and so shouldn't care how I get to the
> > files.  The lilo.conf under Debian refers to them like /red/boot/...
> oh ok, sorry about that.
> 
> > RedHat's fstab does refer to the partitions as /dev/sdaXX, and does
> > not use the /red root.
> > 
> > So I don't think the use of /red is the source of the problem.  Of
> > course, at this point, everything is suspect.  I have triple-checked
> > that I'm actually referring to the right partitions under Debian.
> 
> Could you post the lilo.conf file. It could help out in figuring what is
> wrong.
> 
> P.S. I usually copy all the different kernels onto the same partition
> (seperate /boot, or / of one system in particular) and boot off of that
> and then use root=partition to decide which system to use.
> 
> Bijan
The kernels are all in one partition.  It's /boot under RH, /red/boot under
Debian.  For debian, /boot is a symlink to /red/boot/debian, so all my debian
stuff is in a subdir.  Rather complicated, I know.

The system with the relevant lilo.conf isn't speaking to the world yet, but I
think I can mail the file out under a separate cover.  It should appear on the
list shortly after this message.




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