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Topic: Booting Multiple OS, Problem in Boot Loader

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mikshaw

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Posted: Mar. 09 2006,06:26

That would depend on which bootloader is actually being used now...which one is in the master boot record (probably which was installed most recently)? I don't know much at all about Lilo...I used it for a little while, but it was in the days when i didn't configure anything i didn't need to configure and everything i did was done through a gui.

A grub entry would look pretty much the same as what i posted to gjhicks. The only thing i can think to explain a little more is the partition. a partition listed as (hd0,6) is hda7...first harddrive, seventh partition, starting with zero. I'm not sure if it is different for logical partitions, since i don't use them....i've only gone up to 4

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humpty

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Posted: Mar. 09 2006,06:40

i may be off topic here, but i've always used ranish partioner, it can easlily install a boot manager on the MBR and you don't have to worry about the fiddly bits;

http://www.ranish.com/part/

gjhicks

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Posted: Mar. 09 2006,10:47

Hi,

Thanks for the tip about the 'grub' equivalent of 'lilo' - it worked just fine! Just in case another newcomer has a go at this, the 'initrd (hd0,6)/boot/minirt24.gz' (or similar) should be on a new line from the 'kernel' line.

Flushed with the success of this question/answer I will chance my arm with another question (quite off topic).

I have tried DSL 2.2b and it has a nice new info panel in the top right corner. Now my little laptop has only 128mb RAM but the info panel notes that /home has aa total of 558mb RAM. Below is a capture of the 'df -h' command:

Filesystem Size Used Available Use% Mounted on
/dev/ram0 2.9M 598.0k 2.3M 20% /
/dev/hda8 1.9G 81.0M 1.7G 4% /cdrom
/dev/cloop 117.4M 117.4M 0 100% /KNOPPIX
/ramdisk 558.0M 732.0k 557.3M 0% /ramdisk

Given only 128mb RAM, where does DSL get the 558mb for the /ramdisk?

Look forward to another success!

Geoff