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-- David C. Rankin, J.D., P.E. RANKIN * BERTIN, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 (936) 715-9333 (936) 715-9339 fax "...the right to trial by jury, that palladium of civil liberty and only safe guarantee for the life, liberty and property of the citizen." Texas Declaration of Independence (March 2, 1836) It's your bill of rights - Vote NO to Prop. 12 on September 13 -- ----- Original Message ----- From: "Pierre Fortin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 04, 2003 8:52 PM Subject: Re: [expert] 9.2rc1 installer is alpha & screws current system... > On Fri, 05 Sep 2003 11:58:06 +1200 Michael Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > Sounds like you are dual booting 9.1 and 9.2. and your boot into 9.2 is > > reasonably ok. There are steps that need to be made by you when dual > > booting linux. > > > > Both vmlinuz.2.4.21-XX.mdk and initrd.2.4.21-XX.mdk.img have to be > > copied from 9.1 /boot to 9.2 /boot. Then you replace the 'vmlinuz' in > > the 9.1 stanzas with the full name of the vmlinuz for 9.1(given above). > > Run /sbin/lilo to make this stick. > > > > Then you should be able to boot to 9.1 ok. > > > > Do the same for 9.1, copying the 9.2 files into 9.1 /boot. It is up to > > you if you run /sbin/lilo at this stage. Which OS do you want as > > default? > > > > Hopefully your other issues may be solved by this also. > > Boy... you seem to completely misunderstand how lilo works, and how to > use *separate* /boot directories on different partitions... > # df (sorted for clarity) > Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on > /dev/hda1 485M 67M 393M 15% / # 9.1 > /dev/hda5 3.9G 2.5G 1.3G 68% /usr # 9.1 > /dev/hda6 485M 110M 350M 24% /var # 9.1 > /dev/hda7 # swap > /dev/hda8 985M 19M 916M 3% /tmp # shared > /dev/hda9 485M 62M 398M 14% /92 # 9.2 > /dev/hda10 3.9G 754M 3.0G 21% /92usr # 9.2 > /dev/hda11 485M 49M 411M 11% /92/var # 9.2 > /dev/hda12 4.9G 3.3G 1.3G 72% /home # shared > /dev/hda13 4.9G 1.1G 3.5G 24% /usr/local # shared > /dev/hda14 5.8G 5.0G 564M 90% /ISO # ** > /dev/hda15 9.8G 34M 9.3G 1% /var/www # shared > > ** This is mounted by the installer (CD ISO images on this one), so it > can't be mounted during the install. > > I don't use a shared /boot and there is no reason to copy kernel images > between partitions -- just *properly* define the lilo stanzas. 9.1 and > 9.2 *each* have a /etc/lilo.conf -- while they can't be identical, with > appropriate stanzas in each, they can produce the same MBR. > > Rreread what you snipped and try to understand what happened -- then you > should see what Mdk's installer did wrong... > > > On Thu, 4 Sep 2003 08:26:31 -0400 > > Pierre Fortin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > <snip> > > > > > Loading USB printer modprobe: Can't open dependencies file > > > /lib/modules/2.4.22-1mdk/modules.dep (No such file or directory) > > > [FAIL > > > ED] > > > Huh??!!! WTF! That's not the kernel version in my 9.1... > > > # uname -a > > > > </snip> > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ---- > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com >
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