I just upgraded my hardware to an AMD 64 3000+. In the process I removed my old win 98 drive and replaced it with a 100gig drive. On the second drive, a 30g, I had been running Mandriva 2006. I installed XP, then Mandriva 2007 on the 100.

All is well, but the 2006 Mandriva is not recognized by LILO, there is no option to boot it, I suppose because I removed the old boot drive, which is now connected by USB.

I am trying to migrate settings, Evolution folders, etc to the new 2007 setup. I am running into permission problems doing this.

Any cures for this, and any way to be able to boot up 2006 on the 30g drive with LILO?

Jon Flanders

I've never tried this, but what if you did a rescue from the 2006 cd?

Make a note of the 2nd hard drive, hdb? or whatever, and use that info to direct the rescue process.

Or, edit /ect/fstab file to include your old HD.

Or, go into Manage My Computer, and then to hardware monitor, mount points and use that to set mount popints for your old HD. This is probably the cleanest way. As I said I haven't done this, but what then you should also be able to include it into the boot loader. As long as the /boot dir is still there. Mine is on a partition of its own.

Good luck.

how about having grub in 2007 (100 gig HD) hda I suppose
and have an entry in /boot/grub/menu.lst called
mandy2006
root (1,n) where 1 means hdb, and n=m-1 where the old root is on hdbm
chainload +1

Please check syntax

also you may need to use rescue disk of 2006 to install
own version of grub *on* hdb (30G HD)

Whoa! (edit, speeeeling)

Google, I mean search this site, I'm sure it's been done before, and because of the nature, it's system wide so as long as it's lilo or grub, some has done it.

Sorry Emmanuel_uk, I did not understand what you have written here, although a few glasses of Jacobs Creek Chardonnay may have obscured my vision. ( not to mention (not) having tried what you advised.)

In mcc (mandy control centre, you should be able to pick up any drives that the bios sees as drives, and add them to the /mnt directory. (It's like a formatting program)

you can boot grub with grub with grub with grub
chainload chainload chainload one to another
very early here so morning vapours

presumably hda has a bootloader, if grub then
it cab boot any other drive, so the man can have
a triple boot
alternatively could edit menu.lst and add a menu
to directly boot hdb but will need to instruct with
vmlinuz and initrd version and path
Let grub do the job on hdb

Sorry if my explantions are not clear

No, No!

That's cool.

I haven't used grub for a few years, but I will eventually use it again.

It's possible the chain loading is what I didn't understand.

well the aussie translation would be

to open a xxxx start with a cascade.

or read my tut

doh, beat me to it, this is the link I knew about,
and wanting to post for glennsPref
seen it this morning I am sure
cold shower needed

contribnution to thread
have you heard of package etc-update?