http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4829
Product: lilo
Component: program
Summary: cannot dual boot Linux Mandrake ?????
Product: lilo
Version: 22.5.7-2mdk
Platform: PC
OS/Version: All
Status: UNCONFIRMED
Severity: critical
Priority: P2
Component: program
AssignedTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
what a shame... lilo does not even do better natively than MBR Windoze ???
I had Linux MdK9.1 installed so I thought that freeing space for a new
partition to install Mandrake 9.2 beta 2 was the right thing to do.
Unfortunately, I lost data (for ever, those were mandrake iso... still available
what a chance) and was unable to boot Linux Mandrake 9.1 as expected : it kept
launching MdK 9.2beta2 which I had not yet adopted !
So here's the story:
- free a partition, format Now I have hda8:MdK9.1 and free hda5 for MdK9.2b2 (I
did not duplicate swap as I thought it is dispensable)
- verify that this partition is available in MdK 9.1 : ok (well it reformated
the newly ext3 partition, hence dataloss, but what the heck all install begin
with a backup of crucial data AND I did it (that's the one good piece of advice:
make backup, make backup, make backup and verify that they are ok which I did as
well, what's the use of a corrupted backup ? decoration and tears)
- install MdK9.2b2 from CD on hda5 (MdK 9.1 is on hda8)
- configure lilo to recognize MdK9.1 as well, that's where it began
- boot MdK9.2 : ok, mount MdK9.1, no problem
- boot MdK9.1 : keeps complaining that nvidia not installed correctly and
display newest boot (MdK9.2) instead of good plain old MdK9.1 and guess : MdK9.1
does not boot...
The analysis : lilo uses MdK9.2 to boot instead of MdK9.1 (quite evident isn't it ?)
The (manual !!!!) solution : duplicate hda5#/boot in hda8#/boot (respectively
from MdK9.1 to MdK9.2) prefixing everything with MdK91 not to overwrite existing
files (I did ln -s manually as well, what a pain...). Configure lilo to use
/boot/MdK91initrd.img -> MdK91initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img and /boot/MdK91vmlinuz
-> MdK91vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk
and it worked (I had to reinstall nvidia though...).
***********That's not for the noobie.**************
How do I install kernel-2.6 now on a free partition ? Try the same way or wait
for lilo to take into account dual linux boot ??? (It's high on my wish list as
I think that it is an existing feature to be *Linux friendly*... :?)
Sorry for the hoop and hoe qui veut rien dire mais qui rend bien, but it made me
griiiiiin a while. Now that I'm nearly quite convinced to switch to MdK9.2 I
take it more easily (still have to test OpenOffice and ennemy-territory though,
file a bug for unwanted format of ext3 to ext2, file a bug for konqueror crash
and I'm done)
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