On Monday 12 July 2010 06:52:03 Philip Webb wrote:
My cousin in England wants to try out Linux has an Ubuntu Live CD.
To help her, I've installed the same on a separate partition in my box.
The partition is /dev/sda8 is formatted ReiserFS.
I use Lilo as boot manager don't want to change
100712 Mick suggested :
install a separate boot partition with an ext2 fs
and install GRUB2 there instead of the MBR.
Then chainload it from your LILO bootloader menu.
Thanks for your very prompt response. I'm not sure if I've got it right,
but I can easily re-install Ubuntu with a /boot
Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote:
My cousin in England wants to try out Linux has an Ubuntu Live CD.
To help her, I've installed the same on a separate partition in my box.
The partition is /dev/sda8 is formatted ReiserFS.
I use Lilo as boot manager don't want to change to Grub
On 12 July 2010 08:37, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote:
100712 Mick suggested :
install a separate boot partition with an ext2 fs
and install GRUB2 there instead of the MBR.
Then chainload it from your LILO bootloader menu.
Thanks for your very prompt response. I'm not sure if I've
Sure thing I use lilo on my lap. You want config for example?
2010/7/12 Mick michaelkintz...@gmail.com
On 12 July 2010 08:37, Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote:
100712 Mick suggested :
install a separate boot partition with an ext2 fs
and install GRUB2 there instead of the MBR.
100712 Mateusz Arkadiusz Mierzwinski wrote:
Sure thing I use lilo on my lap. You want config for example?
Please : that would help a lot !
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100712 Mick wrote:
As was already suggested by John,
Thanks to John too.
you can instead copy the kernel image initrd from the Ubuntu installation
to your existing /boot partition, then point LILO to it.
I tried that, Lilo runs ok, but I still get the kernel panic
due to the line in
Further ideas : I tried booting a Gentoo kernel with the Ubuntu /
avoided the kernel panic, but ran into an Ubuntu init error,
so there's nothing inherently wrong with /dev/sda8 .
Also, I checked the Ubuntu kernel config file, conveniently in /boot ,
which has ReiserFS configured as a module,
Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote:
Further ideas : I tried booting a Gentoo kernel with the Ubuntu /
avoided the kernel panic, but ran into an Ubuntu init error,
so there's nothing inherently wrong with /dev/sda8 .
Also, I checked the Ubuntu kernel config file, conveniently in
On 7/12/10, cov...@ccs.covici.com cov...@ccs.covici.com wrote:
Philip Webb purs...@ca.inter.net wrote:
Further ideas : I tried booting a Gentoo kernel with the Ubuntu /
avoided the kernel panic, but ran into an Ubuntu init error,
so there's nothing inherently wrong with /dev/sda8 .
On Monday 12 July 2010 17:21:52 Philip Webb wrote:
Further ideas : I tried booting a Gentoo kernel with the Ubuntu /
avoided the kernel panic, but ran into an Ubuntu init error,
so there's nothing inherently wrong with /dev/sda8 .
Also, I checked the Ubuntu kernel config file,
100712 Mick wrote:
I must have installed at least 3 Ubuntus in the last 6 months,
all of them on reiserfs. No problem booting them.
image=/boot/your_Ubuntu_image
label=Ubuntu
append=ramdisk_size=290
vga=normal
initrd=/boot/your_ubuntu_initrd.gz
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My cousin in England wants to try out Linux has an Ubuntu Live CD.
To help her, I've installed the same on a separate partition in my box.
The partition is /dev/sda8 is formatted ReiserFS.
I use Lilo as boot manager don't want to change to Grub
just to offer temporary help to someone,
so I
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