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Posted: Mar. 09 2006,03:53 QUOTE
I installed Damn small linux and its working fine. After a month i installed SUSE linux 9.1 and the boot loader failed to recognize damnsmalllinux.
so once again i installed Damn small linux and It failed to recognise SUSE linux.
But boot loaders of both linux distros can recognise windows 98 whcich is the other OS i have.
Is there a way by which i can have all 3 OSes with no problem in booting. :)

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Posted: Mar. 09 2006,04:06 QUOTE
Which bootloader do you have?
If it's Grub, it should be fairly easy to add an entry for another operating system to menu.lst

If your DSL install was frugal, it may not have been detected by suse because it doesn't have the traditional filesystem on the harddrive.
DSL's installation might not be configured to auto-detect other linux systems, but that's just a guess.

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Posted: Mar. 09 2006,04:54 QUOTE
Hi,

When reading this thread, I thought it a good place to ask about 'grub' and 'frugal' installs.  The standard DSL frugal install uses 'lilo' but I already have a multi-os system, using 'grub'.

So, can anyone help me in converting the following 'lilo.conf' into a 'grub' instruction:

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lba32          #enable large disk support
timeout=30     #wait 3 seconds before auto-booting
vga=791
boot=/dev/hda   #put boot loader in MBR of target disk
root=/dev/hda7 #set root to be partition of target disk
image=/boot/linux24
label=DSL
initrd=/boot/minirt24.gz
read-only
APPEND="ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi hdh=scsi nomce nodma quiet frugal BOOT_IMAGE=/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX "
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I have tried several approached but always get the 'kernel panic' message.

Look forward to your help.

Geoff.
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Posted: Mar. 09 2006,06:09 QUOTE
Some things in the lilo.conf I don't understand, but here's my quick preliminary conversion:


timeout 30
title DSL
kernel (hd0,6)/boot/linux24 dsl ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi hdh=scsi nomce nodma quiet frugal vga=791
initrd (hd0,6)/boot/minirt24.gz

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sankarv
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Posted: Mar. 09 2006,06:12 QUOTE
Hi mikshaw,
All the OSes are installed only to harddisk and The bootloaders are LILO for DSL and GRUB for SUSE.
If it is easy to configure the bootloader just tell me how to add an entry.

Thank you :)
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