Mandrake 9.2 + Redhat 9.0 (on a single machine) -- boot problem...
I had an installation of Redhat 9.0 on my PC along with Win 2K ...
Now, recently I tried out Mandrake 9.2. It installed perfactly and I had no problems configuring the LILO. But when I added the device /dev/hda9 which had my Redhat installation to the lilo, I found that redhat isn't booting properly... I get all *failed*s after init()... Mandrake is booting perfectly and the data in the redhat partition is intact... dunno what's the problem.. :( help! |
Could you post your lilo.conf file?
Also, just a stupid question. Did you run lilo after configuration? |
I'll bet that both the Red Hat and Mandrake lilo entries produce a link from /boot/vmlinuz -> /boot/vmlinux-<version>, and the link is what is listed in the lilo.conf entry. The same may be true for an initrd.img entry.
If the kernel or initrd entries under the redhat section, refer to a link which points to a file which contains mdk in the name, this is what happened for sure. Be sure you make a backup copy of your /etc/lilo.conf file before making changes. |
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Sorry for being dumb :( Now, How do I correct this? would other = /dev/hdc9 label = "Redhat" correct it? Should I include anything else? |
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boot=/dev/hdc map=/boot/map vga=normal default="linux" keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw menu-title=" hpnadig's Computer " image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux" root=/dev/hdc8 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=mount splash=silent hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdc10 splash=silent" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux-nonfb" root=/dev/hdc8 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=mount splash=silent hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdc10" read-only other=/dev/hdc1 label="windows" table=/dev/hdc other=/dev/fd0 label="floppy" unsafe image=/boot/vmlinuz label="Red_Hat" root=/dev/hdc9 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img append="devfs=mount splash=silent hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdc10 splash=silent" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-10mdk label="old_linux-nonfb" root=/dev/hdc8 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.22-10mdk.img append="devfs=mount hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdc10" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label="failsafe" root=/dev/hdc8 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=nomount splash=silent hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdc10 failsafe" read-only |
well, I could get my Redhat to boot finally! :cool:
here's the lilo.conf... ( I know that this one is a dirty hack.. But I couldn't do it any other way... :D If somebody knows a better way of doing this... please post it.. ) lilo.conf boot=/dev/hdc map=/boot/map vga=normal default="linux" keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux" root=/dev/hdc8 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=mount splash=silent splash=silent hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdc10 splash=silent" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux-nonfb" root=/dev/hdc8 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=mount splash=silent splash=silent hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdc10" read-only other=/dev/hdc1 label="windows" table=/dev/hdc other=/dev/fd0 label="floppy" unsafe image=/mnt/redhat/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20.8 label="Red_Hat" root=/dev/hdc9 initrd=/mnt/redhat/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img append="devfs=mount splash=silent splash=silent hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdc10" vga=78888888888 # image=/boot/vmlinuz label="failsafe" root=/dev/hdc8 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="failsafe devfs=nomount splash=silent splash=silent hdb=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdc10" read-only |
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