| View previous topic :: View next topic |
| Author |
Message |
mshmsh
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 29 Jan 2004
Posts: 107
Location: Foster City, CA
|
 Posted: Sun Feb 10, 2008 11:18 pm Post subject: [Solved] lilo: Getting Fedora into my lilo menu. |
 |
|
Hi, I have 2 hard disks
/dev/hda and
dev/hdb
| Code: |
fdisk -l
Disk /dev/hda: 122.9 GB, 122942324736 bytes
16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 238216 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x009e22d6
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 49608 80610 15625512 83 Linux
/dev/hda2 * 33734 49607 8000496 83 Linux
/dev/hda4 80611 238216 79433393 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 80611 111613 15625480+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda6 111614 115582 2000344+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/hda7 120000 168441 24414768 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 168442 216883 24414736+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 115583 119999 2226105 83 Linux
/dev/hda10 216884 238216 10751800+ 83 Linux
Partition table entries are not in disk order
Disk /dev/hdb: 41.1 GB, 41110142976 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4998 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x394cd3ec
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 25 200781 83 Linux
/dev/hdb2 26 4111 32820795 8e Linux LVM
|
hda is my gentoo installation and my primary master that boots up by default.
I use lilo to control the kernel I like to use
I just installed Fedora on my second hard disk hdb and like to get this to show up on my lilo menu.
I am a little confused as to how to get this into my lilo.conf. On the fedora hard disk, my grub.conf has the following entry.
| Code: |
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd1,0)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.23.1-42.fc8)
root (hd1,0)
kernel /vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8 ro
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00 rhgb quiet
initrd /initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img
|
How do I convert this to an equivalent entry on gentoo's lilo.conf
Currently my lilo.conf looks like this, but Fedora hangs during boot up:
| Code: |
boot=/dev/hda
prompt
timeout=50
default=2.6.22
image=/boot/kernel-2.6.22-gentoo-r9
label=2.6.22
read-only
root=/dev/hda2
image=/boot/kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5
label=2.6.19
read-only
root=/dev/hda2
image=/redhat/vmlinuz-2.6.23.1-42.fc8
initrd=/redhat/initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img
label=Fedora
read-only
root=/dev/hdb2
image=/boot/memtest86/memtest.bin
label=Memtest86
|
(I have /dev/hdb1 mounted as /redhat when running lilo after setting this conf)
Do I need to do anything special to get lilo to recognize the LVM file system on /dev/hdb. Is my translation of grub.conf to the redhat entry looking okay?
Many thanks,
Shyam
Last edited by mshmsh on Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:36 pm; edited 1 time in total |
|
| Back to top |
|
 |
jesnow
l33t
Joined: 26 Apr 2006
Posts: 856
|
| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 12:20 am Post subject: |
|
|
I'm a longtime lilo user, but I'd say in your situation "emerge -C lilo && emerge grub" would be the sane choice.
Cheers,
Jon. |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
mshmsh
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 29 Jan 2004
Posts: 107
Location: Foster City, CA
|
| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 1:28 am Post subject: |
|
|
| jesnow wrote: | I'm a longtime lilo user, but I'd say in your situation "emerge -C lilo && emerge grub" would be the sane choice.
Cheers,
Jon. |
Just what I did not want to hear, being a long time lilo user myself ...
Thanks for your response 
Shyam |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
jesnow
l33t
Joined: 26 Apr 2006
Posts: 856
|
| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:25 am Post subject: |
|
|
OK here goes,
I don't think that the grub on the seocnd HD is necessary. I'm pretty sure that you can add
a boot=/dev/hdb line to a lilo enty, just remember that it will apply to all subsequent entries. The image= line should then point to the boot partition of the fedora install, just like normal. If you run lilo from gentoo, you'll need to have the fedora boot partition mounted when you run it. I've done this (long ago) and I'm pretty sure that's what worked. Windows is often not happy being run from /dev/hdb, you have to do funny tricks to get it to work. Not linux.
Good luck!
Jon
| mshmsh wrote: | | jesnow wrote: | I'm a longtime lilo user, but I'd say in your situation "emerge -C lilo && emerge grub" would be the sane choice.
Cheers,
Jon. |
Just what I did not want to hear, being a long time lilo user myself ...
Thanks for your response :D
Shyam |
|
|
| Back to top |
|
|
Simba7
l33t
Joined: 22 Jan 2007
Posts: 706
Location: Billings, MT, USA
|
| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:35 am Post subject: |
|
|
 Someone still uses lilo? |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
mshmsh
Tux's lil' helper
Joined: 29 Jan 2004
Posts: 107
Location: Foster City, CA
|
| Posted: Mon Feb 11, 2008 3:36 pm Post subject: |
|
|
| jesnow wrote: | OK here goes,
I don't think that the grub on the seocnd HD is necessary. I'm pretty sure that you can add
a boot=/dev/hdb line to a lilo enty, just remember that it will apply to all subsequent entries. The image= line should then point to the boot partition of the fedora install, just like normal.
Jon. |
Adding a second boot=<> line was giving me errors when running lilo.
| Code: |
boot=/dev/hda
prompt
timeout=50
default=2.6.22
image=/boot/kernel-2.6.22-gentoo-r9
label=2.6.22
read-only
root=/dev/hda2
image=/boot/kernel-2.6.19-gentoo-r5
label=2.6.19
read-only
root=/dev/hda2
image=/boot/memtest86/memtest.bin
label=Memtest86
image=/redhat/vmlinuz-2.6.23
initrd=/redhat/initrd-2.6.23.1-42.fc8.img
boot=/dev/hdb
label=Fedora
read-only
root=/dev/VolGroup00/LogVol00
Syntax error at or above line 21 in file '/etc/lilo.conf'
|
I took the easy way out and got myself going by moving to grub on my gentoo box
Thanks,
Shyam |
|
| Back to top |
|
|
|
|
You cannot post new topics in this forum
You cannot reply to topics in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum
You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot vote in polls in this forum
|
|
Installing Gentoo
