On Saturday 10 January 2004 17:38, mike wrote:
> Anne Wilson wrote:
> >On Saturday 10 January 2004 16:30, mike wrote:
> >
> >If I were you I would try booting from CD1, hitting F1 where you
> > get a chance to restore your lilo - you don't need one on each
> > drive. That should at least get you in again, then you can look
> > at what changes if any need making to make both versions
> > available. I don't know whether it will be able to set it up
> > correctly with the boot partitions on separate drives, so you may
> > well have to hand edit.
> >
> >Anne
>
> Thanks Anne,
> that answers some of my questions. So I could boot from install cd
> restore my
> hda lilo.config, then boot to hda and then hand edit all the
> entries I want ie both hda and hdb and all the kernels old and new
> with devices like root=/dev/hda
> root=/dev/hdb
> and associated partitions, images,initrd,etc. and run lilo and of
> course check make sure all is working.
Yes - I forgot to mention that you must run sbin/lilo whenever you
have made changed. See below about configuration
> Then possible boot to hdb (9.1) and remove lilo from 9.1?
> Or due you just leave that lilo.config alone?
Just leave it alone, it will do no harm.
To help you see how my multiboot is set up here is a section of my
lilo.conf. It should help you see what I mean:
boot=/dev/hde
map=/boot/map
keytable=/boot/uk.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
disk=/dev/hde bios=0x80
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.13mdk
label="Mandrake91_13"
root=/dev/hdf1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.13mdk.img
append="devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi acpi=off"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk
label="Mandrake9.1MM"
root=/dev/hdf1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.16mm-mdk.img
append="devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi acpi=off"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-0.26mdk
label="Mandrake91_26"
root=/dev/hdf1
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.21-0.26mdk.img
append="devfs=mount hda=ide-scsi acpi=off"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/hdf1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=nomount hda=ide-scsi acpi=off failsafe"
read-only
other=/dev/hde1
label="windows"
table=/dev/hde
Don't worry about the fact that mine is talking about hde and hdf -
that's a peculiarity of the way this motherboard handles the drives.
Yours will simply be hda and hdb.
Anne
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