Re: Trouble with Lilo, Grub, Redhat, and Debian

[John Schofield <schof@jpreng.com>]

Was able to mount /boot following your last message, so I'm not 
shooting as much in the dark as I was.


To recap.
Red Hat 8 on /dev/hda, with a /dev/hda1 /boot, a /dev/hda2 /, and a 
/dev/hda3 swap
On /dev/hdb, we have:
	/dev/hdb1	Linux from scratch /, not yet ready to boot
	/dev/hdb2	Debian woody /
	dev/hdb3	swap


I installed Debian, and overwrote my RH Grub setup with LILO.  I've 
edited /etc/lilo.conf, but every time I run lilo -v, I get this:

Boot image: /vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.8
Fatal: open /vmlinuz-2.4.20-20.8: No such file or directory.

My grub.conf that was created for RedHat (knows nothing of Debian) is 
at http://www.officemechanic.com/grub.conf

My lilo.conf that Debian created and I edited to attempt to add RedHat 
is at http://www.officemechanic.com/lilo.conf


Thanks very much!



On Sunday, October 19, 2003, at 07:22  AM, Jerome R. Acks wrote:

> On Sat, Oct 18, 2003 at 10:47:46PM -0700, John Schofield wrote:
> > I'm working on a Pentium III system with two IDE hard drives.
> >
> > I had Red Hat 8 installed on /dev/hda2, with /boot mounted on
> > /dev/hda1.  Booting via grub.
> >
> > I installed Debian Woody on /dev/hdb2.  /dev/hdb3 is swap, and
> > /dev/hdb1 is a partition on which I'm building a Linux From Scratch
> > system.
> >
> > Debian boots no problem after Lilo installed, however, Red Hat no
> > longer boots.
>
> Please post your /etc/lilo.conf.
>
> Once you boot to Debian, you can mount /dev/hda1 and determine what
> the Red Hat filenames are.
>
> Alternative: install grub from Debian. Then use the update-grub script 
> to
> help build a /boot/grub/menu.lst that includes all your bootable
> kernels.
>
> > I'm not at all sure what I'm doing with Lilo.  My problem is 
> > compounded
> > by the fact that I didn't record the grub settings before Lilo wiped
> > them, and can't seem to mount the /boot partition on /dev/hda1 to find
> > out the correct path for the image and initrd.  (I'm running the 
> > latest
> > kernel as installed by Red Hat.)
> >
> > Any ideas as to what I need to look at to figure out what I need to to
> > next?  (Anybody know what the image and initrd lines SHOULD say for my
> > version of RedHat?)
> >
> > Any ideas why I can't get boot to mount?  I enter "mount /dev/hda1
> > /mnt/temp2" and get "Invalid MFT record 0 Mount: Wrongs FS type, bad
> > option, bad superblock on /dev/hda1, or too many mounted file
> > systems."
>
> Are you root when you try this?
>
> Assuming ext2 files system:
>
> # mount -t ext2 /dev/hda1 /mnt
>
> > Thanks a bunch!
> >
> > Schof
> >
> >
> > John Schofield
> > Apple Certified Technical Coordinator
> > Macintosh, PC, and Unix Computer Support
> > www.officemechanic.com
>
> --
> Jerome
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