Thanks for the help everyone, I managed to get it working. :)
On Thu, 2003-09-18 at 00:23, Wayne Rooney wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Matthew Gregan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: CLUG <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 4:06 PM
> Subject: Re: lilo problem
>
>
> >On Wed, Sep 17, 2003 at 03:48:37PM +1200,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >> Isnt that why you specify the root?
> >
> >No. The 'root=' argument is passed to the kernel during boot. LILO
> >does not understand filesystems, and therefore does not care what you
> >specify as the 'root='. The kernel image specified in the lilo.conf
> >with 'image=' must be readable by when LILO is run to write the boot
> >sector at the exact location specified by the 'image=' argument.
>
> And so the handling in Paul's case would be to do something like:
>
> cd /mnt
> mkdir hdc8
> mount /dev/hdc8 hdc8
>
> Then change your lilo.conf to:
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label="OldMandrake"
> root=/dev/hdc1
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img
> read-only
> image=/mnt/hdc8/vmlinuz
> label="Debian"
> root=/dev/hdc8
> boot=/dev/hdc8
> install=/boot/boot.b
> map=/boot/map
> read-only
>
> And then run lilo while /dev/hdc8 is still mounted.
>
> Wayne
