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
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