I have fedora 5 installed with grub on hda2. I install debian on a hda3. I installed grub on hda3 with debian. I tried to chainload debian but that does not work. I tried to boot debian directly and it exceeds my bios. I have tried multiple times, grub just won't boot anything past 60gig on my hard drive. So I install lilo on fedora and everything goes fine. I can boot debian, windows but not fedora. It starts to boot but after a little while it says fatal error can't mount root(or something like that). It does seem like something is wrong because it looks like debian is booting when fedora boots. Here is my lilo.conf:

I copyed the debian boot images into the fedora boot directory. I just don't understand.
I can boot from the fedora recover disc and restore grub then boot fedora. After that I can install lilo then boot debian.

You need to include the append line for Fedora. Look up the menu.lst file in grub's directory. The append line is used to include kernel options.

I suggest uncommenting read-only to make it safer.

If you create a partition for /boot and store both Debian and Fedora kernels in it, you should be able to boot off a terabyte hard drive even though your BIOS only supports smaller than your hard drive's capacity.

I suggest getting another hard drive for Linux and leave your present drive for only for DOS/Windows. Some people may say that this setup is harder. It is not harder, but easier because you can choose which drive to boot to like Windows or Linux in the BIOS. You will have to use map command with the desire boot loader to boot to Windows using the Linux drive as the primary boot drive.

BTW, grub can be installed on the Windows drive, but it needs to be formated as FAT16 or FAT32.

Thanks for your reply!

This is my menu.lst:
I commented read-only and added:
The first error is:
Next time I partition my drive I will add a /boot. I did get the Debian lilo to install by using the kernels from my fedora /boot.

The problems using lilo is you have to run the command /sbin/lilo after you make changes to /etc/lilo.conf. I think you did not run it after you add the append line. Also I suggest leaving out quiet until it can boot up Fedora.

I think you should give grub another shot because it is easier than LILO. I think grub is better than LILO because you can activate anti-virus check in the BIOS to protect your computer from master boot viruses.

I wish you were right but I still get the same error.

How could I get grub to boot my debian(hda3) images off my fedora(hda2) partition so I won't get my bios error?

I finally got something accomplished. I installed the debian(hda3) lilo to root. Then I installed fedora's(hda2) grub on the MRB and set up debian as a rootnoverify and it works. Now when I click on debian in fedora grub I get taken to my debian's lilo.

It all comes at once. Now I can boot everything with grub.
This didn't work:
This did:
I put my images in my Fedora /boot on hda2. I found that adding root (hd0,1) tells grub that my images are in hda2 but the
root=/dev/hda3 tells it to boot hda3. It gets past my bios limitations.

I learn something new everyday.