What is the LILO config that I must paste in order to boot up Fedora Core 3 on /dev/hda2 ?

image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda2
label = Fedora_Core_3
read-only

This one doesnt seem to work, what do I edit?

What else do you have on your system (hard drive configuration, OS that contains your /etc/lilo.conf and Lilo binary) ? - Are you setting your boot options up from within Slackware ?

Cheers,

mj

Yes I am doing everything in Slackware since I'm "locked-out" from Fedora. My current HDD Config is:

/dev/hda1 Windows XP Pro
/dev/hda2 Fedora /
/dev/hda3 Fedora /home
/dev/hda4 Extended (rest of HDD, about 88 GB)
/dev/hda5 Fedora /usr
/dev/hda6 Fedora /opt
/dev/hda7 Swap
/dev/hda8 Slackware /
/dev/hda9 Slackware /home
/dev/hda10 Swap (yes I, by mistake, made 2 swaps)
/dev/hda11 Slackware /usr
/dev/hda12 Slackware /opt

I would guess my LILO binary is at the MBR? or wihtin Slackware itself. There is a lot of mistakes with this HDD configuration becasue this is my first Slackware 10.1/Windows XP Pro/Fedora core 3 installation. But my question still remains, what must I edit from the above LILO config to be able to boot up with Fedora Core 3 at /dev/hda2 ?

If you're doing this from your Slack installation, then you'll need to use the absolute path to your Fedora kernel:- Edit the mount point for hda2 as appropriate, and make sure that it's mounted before running lilo again.

Cheers,

mj

Hmm.. I pasted the code in exactly as you posted it, but it still won't load up.
Quote:
"- Edit the mount point for hda2 as appropriate, and make sure that it's mounted before running lilo again"
I don't understand how to mount hda2. I am new to Linux. How do I mount hda2?

Check that /dev/hda2 is included in your /etc/fstab file - if not, then add it using the same format, e.g.and create the mount point (directory) for it, thus (as root): mkdir /mnt/hda2. Now all you need to do is issue the followingMounting a drive makes it available for read and optionally, write access. Thus after running the mount command, you should be able to just browse hda2 as normal, entering it from /mnt/hda2.

Cheers,

mj

Hey thanks, I managed to mount the partition onto the file. LILO in terminal errored-out with FC3, becasue vmlinuz doesn't exist on /mnt/hda2/boot, which is true (after browsing /boot, it isn't there). Unless you know the boot file, I'll have to try all of them. The closest one to vmlinuz is vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.677, but its s SELinux script It looked quite funny running SELinux scripts during setup up with no kernel loaded. If i get to find out what boot file it is, I will post it up ASAP.
mjrich, I really appriciate all your help. Thank you for helping out a Linux newbie .

Great to hear you have the FC3 partition mounted

The kernel (boot) image you're looking for, should be in either the FC3 root directory (/mnt/hda2/ if you did mount it as above) or otherwise in /mnt/hda2/boot/. The name should be something along the lines of bzImage* or vmlinuz*, so I'm surprised that it isn't vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.677. vmlinuz (whether at the root or boot directory) is normally just a symbolic link (shortcut) to the real kernel image.

The image itself should be about 800 kb - 1 Mb. You can use ls -lh from within a directory to list the file sizes and whether it's a link to another file.

If you really can't find the kernel image for FC3, then simply browse to the original lilo config file within FC3 (most likely at /mnt/hda2/etc/lilo.conf) and see what's listed there.

Finally, don't forget to run lilo after any changes to the config file...

Cheers,

mj

Now why didnt I think of that...I will leave that to last resort to give myself a challenge , once again thank you A++ help!

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667
label=linux
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
read-only
append="rhgb quiet root=LABEL=/1"

That is the LILO code I found in the LILO Config of Fedora Core 3! YAY! couldn"t have done it without mjrich.

Great !

Let us know how you get on after adding the FC3 kernel data to Slackware's lilo.conf

Cheers,

mj

WOW! It worked. Fedora Core 3 boots up like it was before with no problems what so ever. My config:

Code:

image=/mnt/hda2/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667
label=Fedora_Core_3
initrd=/mnt/hda2/boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
read-only
append="rhgb quiet root=LABEL=/1"

-For people who would want to use this config to boot with
Fedora, remember to edit the directories to where your files are mounted.

Excellent news

Take care,

mj

Well, it was done thanks to you. Greatly appreciated. 2 thumbs up.