http://qa.mandrakesoft.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4829
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I've found the MdK9.2 lilo.conf just after adding MdK9.1 :boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
default="linux-0"
keytable=/boot/fr-latin1.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux"
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi splash=silent acpi=off"
vga=788
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux-nonfb"
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/hda5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe devfs=nomount hdc=ide-scsi acpi=off"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label="windows"
table=/dev/hda
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-6mdk
label="linux-0"
root=/dev/hda8
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
vga=788
read-only
MdK9.1 is called linux-0 and is correctly identified on hda8... but image and
initrd are not correct : that's why I say that lilo expects to find everything
under /boot (furthermore, it expects initrd is the initrd link... at the wrong
place).
They should be :
image=/boot/MdK91vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk
label="linux-MdK9.1"
root=/dev/hda8
initrd=/boot/MdK91initrd.img
append="acpi=off"
vga=788
read-only
I had to to copy under /boot to get it to take into account the good files...
lilo could have done it once it saw that they were on different partitions,
copying "locally" what's needed (that's just a proposal...).
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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)
