On Mon, 6 Dec 1999, Aalok Jain wrote:
> please do edit my lilo.conf for enabling mutiboot
> i have red hat linux 6.1 on one hard drive and caldera 2.3 on other
> hda - 4.3GB
> hda1 - fat32 - 1GB - win95
> hda2 - linux swap - 64MB
> hda3 - linux native - 8MB - /boot
> hda4 - linux native - 2.7GB - /
> this was for red h at linux 6.1 - my booting presently is thru "hda".
>
>---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> second hard drive :
> hdb - 4.3GB
> hdb1 - fat32 - 2.67GB - applications
> hdb2 - ext - 1.55GB - extended
> |_
> |---- hdb5 - linux native - 1.5GB
> |---- hdb6 - linux swap - 64MB
> |---- hdb7 - linux native - 8MB
> caldera 2.3 is installed in the above partitions
>
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If you have RH 6.1, your safest bet is to use linuxconf to edit the lilo
setting.
In linuxconf, scroll down till you come to boot mode:
- boot mode
- Lilo
LILO defaults (Linux boot loader)
LILO linux configurations
LILO other OS configurations
default boot configuration
Choose LILO linux configurations
Choose Add
Type in the name of the kernel image file.
Select the root partition from the drop down box (most likely /dev/hdb5)
You can leave other options as they are.
If you do not the real values for the kernel image file, and root
partition of caldera, then you will have to open the lilo.conf file in
caldera.
You will first have to mount the caldera partitions, /dev/hdb5 and
/dev/hdb7
Then check to see which one contains an etc directory with lilo.conf in
it. Open lilo.conf, and copy the values from there into your RH
lilo.conf.
NOTE: as you will be mounting the /dev/hdbx partitions under a directory
say /mnt/caldera or something, the etc directory will actually be
/mnt/caldera/etc. Do not look at /etc as that will be your RH etc
directory.
> my lilo.conf is here
>
> boot = /dev/hda
> timeout = 50
> prompt
> default = dos
> vga = normal
> read-only
> map = /boot/map
> image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
> label = linux
> initrd = /boot/initrd-2.2.12-2-.img
> root = /dev/hda1
> label = dos
I cannot edit this because there is no way of knowing from where I am
what the filename of your kernel image is. I don't even know if your root
partition is hdb5 or hdb7.
>
> thank you
Philip
