On Saturday 11 June 2005 13:03, Rony Bill wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > why bother with lilo when grub can boot everything you throw at > > it. > > That's exactly my query. LILO is not my choice, thats what Xandros > gives to the user.
Xandros target market is a windows zombie who will almost never have more than one linux distro on his machine. As a system integrator your requirements are different. > > > Pls post your menu.lst. This will be in the partition of the > > distro that installed grub. Also partition details. > > The easy way to debug a grub problem is to open a grub shell and > > issue commands manually. > > # This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an > existing # linux installation on /dev/hda12. > title Mandrake Linux 10.1 (on /dev/hda12) > root (hd0,11) > kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda12 ro acpi=ht > resume=/dev/hda10 > initrd /boot/initrd.img > savedefault > boot > > > # This entry was added manually after loading Xandros 3 on > /dev/hda11 title Xandros 3 (on /dev/hda11) > kernel (hd0,10)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-x1 > initrd (hd0,10)/boot/initrd-2.6.9-x1.gz > savedefault kernel (hd0,10/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-x1 root=/dev/hda11 you did not tell the kernel it's root partition. The error would have been kernel panic unable to mount root filesystem blah blah rgds jtd -- http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers
