Adding Sabayon to Slackware's lilo config file.

drkmessiah · 11-21-2006, 08:33 PM

I have my computer's hard drives set up in the following manner.

hda = cdrom drive.
hdb = windowsxp
sda = lilo installed by slackware 11 in the mbr
sda1 = / slackware
sda2 = swap
sda3 = /home
sdb = grub installed by sabayon in sdb's MBR
sdb1 = / sabayon 3.1 root directory
sbd2 = swap
sdb3 = /home

I have the computer's bios setup so that it boots to sda. What should I put in slackwares lilo.conf file so that it will boot sabayon which uses Grub to boot.

truthfatal · 11-22-2006, 01:38 AM

Why not just use lilo to boot Sabayon? Though I suppose you could use lilo to chainload grub and then have grub load Sabayon. It just seems to me like extra work.

This should load sabayon if you're not using an initrd. if you do need an initrd, if you need an initrd be sure to use the /boot/README.initrd in the slack boot dir.

Code:

image = /boot/vmlinuz
  root = /dev/sdb1
  label = Sabayon
  read-only

that should search /dev/sdb1 for /boot/vmlinuz and boot it.

drkmessiah · 11-22-2006, 04:24 PM

That's the way my lilo config looks currently.

# linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sdb1
label=sabayon
read-only # Non-UMDOS filesystems should be mounted read only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends

I'm just wondering if, since I'm using lilo to boot sabayon, I need to make and initrd file for it. and if so can I use slackware's mkinitrd program.

I have noticed something else as well. Since setting up slackwares initrd file windows no longer boots. The windows section of my lilo looks like this.

# Windows bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/hdb1
label = winxp
# map-drive = 0x80
# to = 0x81
# map-drive = 0x81
# to = 0x80
table = /dev/hdb
# windows botable partiotion config ends.

I've read quite a few sites and everything seems to be as it should. I don't know why windows is no longer booting.

arubin · 11-23-2006, 10:13 AM

My experience with lilo is that lilo.config must have a path which works when you actually reinstall lilo.

In other words. If you are reinstalling lilo from your slackware installation

image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sdb1
label=sabayon

will not work because /boot/vmlinuz is your slackware kernel not your sabayon kernel.

You need something like this. Fist mouth the sabayon boot partition

eg

mount /dev/sdb1 /mnt/sabayon

Then lilo.config should have

image = /mnt/sabayon/boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sdb1
label=sabayon