LILO booting probem with 2 partitions.
Hello,
I'm new to Linux and I have some problems with lilo. I have 2 slackware partitions (one for testing and the other one for doing serious stuff) on a 40GB hard drive on my Laptop and I want to be able to boot on both.
The problem I have is, only the partiton which is the current root and from where I try to install lilo will work the other one will boot, but during startup, many programs like modprobe, mount, cardmgr, will complain that files are missing (No such files or directory) and the computer will stop booting.
Looks like an access path problem to me, but the 'root' variables in my lilo.conf seems to be ok. I've read the man pages for lilo.conf and the user.tex but didn't find anything very useful for my problem.
By the way, what program is use to read .tex document on unix system? I try tex and latex but got many errors so I ended with a text editor and found many programing codes with the text.
Hmmmm... so much to learn when you start on a new system! :-)
Here is my lilo.conf:
--->
boot = /dev/hda
lba32
prompt
timeout = 50
vga = 773
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda3
label = slackware_main
read-only
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda5
label = slackware_test
read-write
--->
/dev/hda3 = 6GB primary type partition
/dev/hda6 = 6GB logical type partition
My Setup:
40GB Western Digital HD
HP P3 700MHz Pavilion Laptop
256 MB RAM
Thanks for any help.
Conveco
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