Booting in DSL when lilo overwriten by Ubuntu

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Booting in DSL when lilo overwriten by Ubuntu
started by: txemi

Posted by txemi on Oct. 10 2005,10:44

Hi. I bought a new HD (120 Gb) and finally decided to get rid of Windows.
I have installed 3 Distros by this order:
1.- DSL in hda9 (frugal install using lilo)
2.- Musix Linux in hda7
3.- Kubuntu Breezy in hda1

After installing Musix linux, the mbr was overwriten by its grub and DSL didn't appear in the grub menu.list.
Later I installed Kubuntu Breezy and the problem with DSL booting remains the same.
As I supposed that this could happen, I made a boot floppy for DSL, so I can boot on DSL (using the boot floppy), but I'd like to modify the Kubuntu's grub to have an option to boot DSL too in a normal boot.
Any advice will be very welcome.
Thanks in advance.

Posted by mikshaw on Oct. 10 2005,15:18

It may not be Kubuntu's Grub that is used at boot. If you didn't specifically install grub when installing Kubuntu, you may still be using Grub from Musix. In either case, the file you need to edit is /boot/grub/menu.lst
Add an entry for DSL to this file and you should be good...something like this:
title Damn Small Linux
kernel (hd0,8)/boot/isolinux/linux24 root=/dev/hda9 dsl frugal dma
initrd (hd0,8)/boot/isolinux/minirt24.gz

Posted by txemi on Oct. 11 2005,22:36

Hi all and thanks a lot Mikshaw, it worked with a bit of effort, 'cos I don't have an /isolinux directory.
And yes, the grub is the kubuntu's one.
Finally the DSL entry in grub's menu.lst is as follows:

title Damn Small Linux
kernel (hd0,8)/boot/linux24 root=/dev/hda9 dsl lang=es frugal quiet dma nopcmcia noapm noacpi alsa toram vga=791
initrd (hd0,8)/boot/minirt24.gz
savedefault
boot

Once again, thank you very much.
PD: Is really fast!!!