Anne Wilson wrote:
On Monday 09 May 2005 15:30, Snapafun wrote:
Or should I just be doing the other thing :
other=/dev/hdb5
image=/boot/vmlinuz.img
label="PCLOS"
root=/dev/hdb5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="noapic acpi=on splash=silent devfs=nomount
vga=788
read-only
Frank, you don't have to use vmlinuz.img and initrd.img at all if you don't want to. There's a lot to be said for putting the actual kernel names in there - check the syntax from other entries. At least, it works with different kernels for Mandrake, so I presume it would work for you.
Anne
Thanks Anne and greatly appreciated.
I have heard of your suggestion before but my current entries are as above so I do not have any " kernel " example entries to go on.
Isn't it great that we have so many options.
As to the above entry I was thinking of making, my concern there is whether or not the vmlinuz and initrd.img files on hdb5 would be the ones used should I be booting from the hda partition, or do I need to still point to those files from within the hda1 ( boot ) partition ?
To help me understand this correctly is the following statement correct :
Using " other=/dev/hdb5 " has now made file 'pointers' within the section considered as being prefixed by the /dev/hdb5 and will therefore point to files only at /dev/hdb5/boot or /dev/hdb5/root even though the " /dev/hdb5 " is excluded from the file name.
By the way, a typo with the above, it ought to be :
other=/dev/hdb5
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="PCLOS"
root=/dev/hdb5
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="noapic acpi=on splash=silent devfs=nomount
vga=788
read-onlyie. not vmlinuz.img but only vmlinuz.
One clarification as to why this way with booting. My MDK10 Installation is broken up into various partitions and PCLOS doesn't see the /boot or /root or /home etc partitions as such but sees the /boot as /dev/hda1, /root as /dev/hda5, /home as /dev/hda9 - etc. so I have no confidence in installing lilo from the PCLOS installation as I believe it will have problems locating the vmlinuz and initrd.img files for MDK10.
Also, when attempting to make a rescue disk using # mkrescue within PCLOS, it errors at the /dev/hda entry within lilo.conf .
Regards
SnapafunFrank
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