setting up a triple boot

Valkyrie_of_valhalla · 12-27-2006, 02:58 AM

I'm curious what Slackware is like, so I decided to install it. I decided to leave my windoze and Suse partitions as they are. At first, I didn't install a bootloader on the Slackware partition, because I was planning to use just the Grub that Suse installed in the MBR. I edited menu.lst, and the result is a kernel panic on slack (it says the kernel image is bad, or something). Then, I booted the slack dvd again, and chose to install lilo on the root partition. From the setup menu, everything seemed to be ok, but I can't see anything diffrent in /boot (on the slack partition).

What should I do to get it working?
I was thinking of trying to install grub with yast on the slack partition. Might that work?

And, another question for other Slackware users out there. There are about a dozen kernel types on the dvd, from which I can choose. I let it install the default one. But, what's the diffrence between them? Should I install another one?

Thanks for reading. Any info is welcomed.

Electro · 12-27-2006, 03:13 AM

First post your /boot/grub/menu.lst.

In Slackware, did you create a directory named /initrd. Next did you use mkinitrd to create a ramdisk or initrd file. What is the filesystem(s) did you use for Slackware. Are you booting from a secondary or add-on controller like a SATA, SCSI, or an extra IDE controller.

Valkyrie_of_valhalla · 12-27-2006, 03:29 AM

hmm, the initrd is the problem. I wondered what that was...thanks for the idea.
So how do I create it? The man pages aren't very clear. Is it

Quote:

mkinitrd -b /hda5/boot -k /hda5/boot/vmlinuz -i /hda5/boot/initrd -d /dev/hda5

or something like this? (where /hda5 is the mount point of my slack partition)

I used reiser fs.

Also, here's menu.lst (sorry I didn't post it earlyer)

Quote:

# Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Wed Dec 27 11:27:58 EET 2006

color white/blue black/light-gray
default 0
timeout 8
gfxmenu (hd0,6)/boot/message

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: linux###
title SUSE LINUX 10.0
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 vga=0x31a selinux=0 resume=/dev/hda6 splash=silent showopts
initrd /boot/initrd

title Slackware
kernel (hd0,4)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda5

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: windows###
title Windows
chainloader (hd0,0)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: floppy###
title Floppy
chainloader (fd0)+1

###Don't change this comment - YaST2 identifier: Original name: failsafe###
title Failsafe -- SUSE LINUX 10.0
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 vga=normal showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off noresume selinux=0 nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 edd=off 3
initrd /boot/initrd

I know I also have to add initrd to slack, and I guess I should add root(hd0,4) too. Yast didn't add it...

Valkyrie_of_valhalla · 12-27-2006, 04:05 AM

Ah, I got it!!! I am currently posting from my newly installed Slack

Thanks again, it was the initrd thing. I just typed mkinitrd after I quit setup on the install cd.