3 OSes, 2 HDDs, 1 LILO

Forum: HD Install
Topic: 3 OSes, 2 HDDs, 1 LILO
started by: SaidinUnleashed

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on May 06 2004,00:57

okay, here's the deal.

i have WinXP and Mandrake 10.0 on one hard disk. i have a tiny little 2.1 GB disk that i want to put DSL on.

i want to use Mandrake's pretty graphical lilo. what do i need to do to get it to boot all 3 OSes? reinstalling anything 'cept XP is no biggie, cause i just upgraded to the official release on Mandrake.

if this isn't enough info, ask me what you need to know.

thanks~!

Posted by ke4nt1 on May 06 2004,03:33

I use Grub, just for it's ease of editing and restoring in case of failures.
This file boots Fedora Core, WinXP, and DSL 0.6.3

Here is a copy of my grub.conf file, located in /boot/grub/grub.conf
The last 4 lines boot DSL 0.6.3.

Lilo is similar, with append line added for boot options.
Search these posts for more info on Lilo.....

73
ke4nt

default=2
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Memtest86 v3.1
kernel /memtest86-3.1
title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2174.nptl)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2174.nptl.img
title Fedora Core (2.4.22-1.2174.nptlsmp)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2174.nptlsmp ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi
initrd /initrd-2.4.22-1.2174.nptlsmp.img
title DOS
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
title DSL 0.6.3
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/hda2
initrd /boot/System.map

Posted by SaidinUnleashed on May 12 2004,02:08

well, it took me a while, but i just finally got it to work, evidently, mandrake's version of grub is not the same as the normal one. its really odd. anyways thanks!