On 06 May 2002 08:48, skinky wrote: > I just installed redhat and had lilo/boot problems also. You only need the > one swap partition. I have a separate /boot partition which I share > between the distros - be sure NOT to format the /boot partition if you have > the same setup. > > During the redhat install I chose not to install a boot loader - thought I > would rather keep Mandrake's lilo going. When the rh installation finished > I rebooted with the boot floppy (made during installation) and all seemed > OK. > > I rebooted from the hard drive to Mandrake (with Mandrake's lilo) and > edited lilo.conf to include the rh partition. However upon running lilo (# > /sbin/lilo) I got an error about an older version. > > So I rebooted with the rh boot floppy, uninstalled lilo (rh had > automatically installed lilo but /etc/lilo.conf did not exist), then > reinstalled lilo. I edited the lilo.conf to include Mandrake and ran # > /sbin/lilo. All is well but I don't like rh's boot loader (its ugly). > > From what Civileme said I think you need to install rh first then install > Mandrake to use Mandrake's lilo. I might reinstall Mandrake later in the > week - I'm getting faster at setting up apache, samba and twiki and > upgrading all packages ; ).
Ooops! Just found out that all I had to do in Mandrake was uninstall lilo (with --nodeps) and reinstall it! Piece of peewees... skinky -- oxymoron: Microsoft Works
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