ok.....here's the situation....i'm wanting to create a multi-distro linux box with several different distros installed.......i partitioned my drive like this...

hda1= /boot
hda5= /Mandrake
hda6= /Suse
hda7= /Lycoris
hda8= /Gentoo
hda9= /Debian
hda10= /Fedora
hda11= /Slackware
hda12= /home
hda13= swap

5gb each partition and 1gb swap partition.......the /home is actaually lke 30gb

Now, i successfully installed Mandrake 10 and everything seemed to be going fine......it works and everything.....so then i start installing Lycoris......install goes well......when it comes to the partition part of the installation, i tell it to install onto hda7.....it does everything fine.......i tell it to not use the Lycoris bootloader (b/c i'll use the bootloader for mandrake)......install completes successfully.....i reboot.......go into mandrake to add the Lycoris boot info into lilo......and now i'm stuck.....i show it where the Lycoris folder is and point it to where the vmlinuz file is.....which is /Lycoris/boot/vmlinuz

whenever i reboot, lilo comes up and i have the Lycoris option, but then i try to boot it and i get an error........



"fsck failed (see output on tty11!)"
it shows a bunch of other stuff too, and mentions manually fixing the problem and trying again




what is wrong?.....anybody know?

lilo can't find it because there is no /Lycoris/boot/vmlinuz.And lilo will never find it at /boot/vmlinuz so what I do is put all the kernels on the /boot partition so lilo will look something like;
image = /boot/vmlinuz
label = Lycoris
root = /dev/hda7
read-only
now make sure that is the only kernel named vmlinuz and add the initrd line if you need it.

could u explain in a little more detail?.....how would i go about telling lycoris to load into the /boot?.......how do u load the kernel into boot, and yet have it on hda7 instead of hda1?.....i don't really understand

What I do is have all my kernels in one spot,so you would copy the lycoris kernel and initrd and the System.map from the boot on hda7 to the mandrake boot partition.I'm not sure if this is the best way to do it.That is for lilo,grub seems easier to me,but I have a box with lilo and I boot slackware and gentoo and slackware comes with lilo.Hope someone who knows lilo better can say if this is the best way for lilo,I'm not sure and can't find alot of information on booting 2 linux distro's with it.Lots of info on linux and windows.But I have 2 harddrives,may be able to use other = (for me its hdb1) but never tried itGood Luck

Here is another way to do it;
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...lilo+dual+boot
What they are saying is to create a mount point in mandrake for lycrois in fstab like
/dev/hda7 /mnt/lycrois ext3 defaults 0 0
then point lilo to that