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Dual Boot Mandrake & Mepis

I've installed Mepis on my slave drive - hdb.
Root partition is on hdb1.
I've (tried) to configure lilo to point to the root partition of Mepis (hdb1) but I still cant get it to boot. I partially used info in the Mepis Grub conf file to setup lilo, but when it comes to booting Mepis I get this error:
Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to the kernel.
Here's my lilo config file.

Code:

# File generated by DrakX/drakboot

# WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file



boot=/dev/hda

default="linux"

prompt

nowarn

timeout=100

message=/boot/message

menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw

image=/boot/vmlinuz

        label="linux"

        root=/dev/hda1

        initrd=/boot/initrd.img

        append="devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent"

        vga=788

        read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz

        label="linux-nonfb"

        root=/dev/hda1

        initrd=/boot/initrd.img

        append="devfs=mount acpi=ht"

        read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.3-7mdk

        label="263-7"

        root=/dev/hda1

        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.3-7mdk.img

        append="devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent"

        read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz-smp

        label="linux-smp"

        root=/dev/hda1

        initrd=/boot/initrd-smp.img

        append="devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent"

        read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz

        label="failsafe"

        root=/dev/hda1

        initrd=/boot/initrd.img

        append="failsafe acpi=ht devfs=nomount"

        read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7

        label="Mepis"

        root=/dev/hdb1

        initrd=/boot/grub/initrd.mepis

        read-only

Bit lost on what to do next - I can post any other necessary files if required.
Any help much appreciated.

If you boot your first MDK CD like your doing an install pick upgrade, Nothing will really get changed but it will detect the other Linux installation and set grub for you.

Nope, didn't work.
Mandrake uses lilo as standard - it just tried to re-install the lilo config that I already had.
Any more suggestions?

Did you run /sbin/lilo what did it say?

Which method did you use to make Mepis's kernel etc accesible to LILO before running /sbin/lilo from Mandrake?

Quote:

Originally posted by comprookie2000
Did you run /sbin/lilo what did it say?

Ah, yes, now I get an error message. Initially I was using drakboot to configure lilo, but running it from the console gives errors:

Code:

# /sbin/lilo

Added linux *

Added linux-nonfb

Added 263-7

Added linux-smp

Added failsafe

Fatal: open /boot/grub/initrd.mepis is not a directory

#

Quote:

Which method did you use to make Mepis's kernel etc accesible to LILO before running /sbin/lilo from Mandrake?

I didn't realise I had to - I've never tried to boot two different distro's before. If this is the case, I didn't do anything to Mepis' Kernel. I just installed it on the slave drive, installed Mepis' bootloader on the root partition and booted back into Mandrake to edit lilo.
I honestly thought it would be as easy as that - it looks like I was mistaken.
must do more :study:

Do this:

Go into Mandrake - su to root user in Konsole and:

Create mount point:

Code:

mkdir /mnt/mepis

Then mount Mepis's root partition - (presuming it's on ext3 - substiute if different)

Code:

mount -t ext3 -o rw /dev/hdb1 /mnt/mepis

Now Mepis's root partition is mounted, have a quick check of the PATH's to the kernel and initrd file - they should be like the entry below - ie ( have a look in /mnt/mepis/boot....... etc etc and see if those files are there - if not then post back if you're not sure)

Then use a text editor as root user in Konsole still to edit /etc/lilo.conf

Code:

kedit /etc/lilo.conf

Then edit the Mepis entry to : (having checked the PATH's first of course)

Code:

image=/mnt/mepis/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.7

        label="Mepis"

        root=/dev/hdb1

        initrd=/mnt/mepis/boot/grub/initrd.mepis

        read-only

Then Save the /etc/lilo.conf file

Then type:

Code:

/sbin/lilo

and reboot.

That did it, thanks Skyline. :)