I think lilo of woody is written on master boot record. You can boot from woody and make the changes in lilo.conf for tri booting. Start lilo and it sud work.
regards Arti On Sun, 9 Jun 2002, Dr. Sharukh K. R. Pavri. wrote: > I have a triple boot with the following partition scheme. > > Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1027 cylinders > Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes > > Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System > /dev/hda1 1 192 1542208+ 6 FAT16 > /dev/hda2 * 193 384 1542240 83 Linux > /dev/hda3 385 576 1542240 83 Linux > /dev/hda4 577 1027 3622657+ 5 Extended > /dev/hda5 577 704 1028128+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) > /dev/hda6 705 724 160618+ 82 Linux swap > /dev/hda7 725 876 1220908+ 83 Linux > /dev/hda8 877 1027 1212876 83 Linux > > /dev/hda2 is / and /dev/hda7 is /home for RH 7.1. > /dev/hda3 is / and /dev/hda8 is /home for debian woody. > > as can be seen /dev/hda2 is the active partition. I previously had only > win 95 and RH 7.1 and used lilo as bootloader. Lilo was installed on > /dev/hda2. > > I then loaded debian woody and loaded the lilo of woody on /dev/hda3. I > added the entry for rh (and an entry for win95) in lilo.conf of woody. I > can now triple boot using lilo of woody. > > I booted into rh, added the entry for woody in lilo.conf ran /sbin/lilo > (which did not throw up any errors) but when I reboot, it is the lilo of > woody that is again loading up. > > Why is this happening ? why is lilo of rh not coming into play even though > the active partition is /dev/hda2 where lilo is installed? > > How can I find out where lilo is installed ? How do I get lilo of redhat > working ? Should I have not installed lilo of woody ? > > regards, > > Sharukh. > -- Arti Srivastava ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) Ph: 91-080-3618184 PicoPeta Simputers Pvt Ltd www.picopeta.com _______________________________________________________________ Don't miss the 2002 Sprint PCS Application Developer's Conference August 25-28 in Las Vegas - http://devcon.sprintpcs.com/adp/index.cfm?source=osdntextlink _______________________________________________ linux-india-help mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
