Tom Berger wrote:
>
> Guess you left the 'image' and 'root' entry in the third section out by
> accident? 'other' is a keyword suggesting a non-Linux OS.
Not only for non-Linux. If you want to boot a second Linux which
is on another partition and you don't want the two of them being
able to "see" each other you have a lilo in one Linux's partition
bootrecord which has a timeout of zero and starts only this
linux. You have the lilo of the second linux in the mbr and from
there you start the lilo of the first linux. Therefore it's
listed as "other". Have it tested with suse 5.3 and rh 5.2 and a
different testversion of mdr 5.3.
> Dumb guess: you are below the 1024 cylinders area, aren't you?
Yes (grumble)! hda3 goes from 358 to 549..
> Hm, another dumb guess: put vmlinuz in a newly created directory
> /mnt/boot. Or try the 'optional' switch. Maybe that'll help.
Huh? If I do the former then from m5.3 it woould be on
/mnt/mnt/vmlinuz. `optional' doesn't help.
> Duh, and I thought I had problems... :-(
M6 4th installation. This time I erased the LILO in MBR (with DOS
fdisk /mbr) and tried to install LILO from M6 in the MBR. I just
thought M6 doesn't like to have the LILO in the partition's
bootrecord. No way. Still "Error in installing bootloader". And
of course "Error in creating bootdisk".
Can it be that I was just given the wrong CD at Mandrake's
office? I don't regard myself as a Linux expert. But since SuSE
4.4.1 I gathered some experience with SuSE, RH, and DLD
distributions. Did lots of installations. I never encountered
such problems during basic installation. There was a lot of
man-page reading and asking in newsgroups and HOWTO-reading when
setting up ISDN first time on a RedHat system, but I managed
because every time I got an explanation together with the
occurring error. Not this time...
Wolfgang
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