Triple Boot, Mandrake 10.1, Gentoo 2004.3, WinXP - LiLo
LQ Community,
I've got an interesting situtation. I would like to triple boot Mandrake 10.1, Gentoo 2004.3 and WinXP. Currently Mandrake and win xp boot fine, I'm currently adding gentoo. Problem: After compiling Gentoo with 2.6.9-gentoo-r1 kernel source (using a level 3 installation), I proceed to add the necessary information to the lilo config file, but when I attempt to write the info to the MBR, I get the error message: "/dev/hdg7/kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r1 is not a directory." and MBR installation fails. First, here is my machine setup: Dell Dimension 8100 P4 1.7 Promise Ultra 100 ATA IDE PCI card 1) 60gb HD (housing winxp (NTFS) 2x Fat32 Partitions) 2) 80gb HD (housing Mandrake 10.1 and Gentoo 2004.3) Here is the partition information for the 80 GB HD with the Linux Systems Disk /dev/hdg: 82.3 GB, 82348277760 bytes 16 heads, 63 sectors/track, 159560 cylinders Units = cylinders of 1008 * 512 = 516096 bytes Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdg1 * 1 12190 6143728+ 83 Linux /dev/hdg2 12191 159560 74274480 5 Extended /dev/hdg5 12191 14424 1125904+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdg6 14425 136590 61571632+ 83 Linux /dev/hdg7 136591 136655 32728+ 83 Linux /dev/hdg8 136656 137695 524128+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdg9 137696 159560 11019928+ 83 Linux hdg 1,2,5,6 all belong to Mandrake 10.1 hdg 7,8,9 all belong to Gentoo (7 is boot, 8 is swap, 9 is root) Here is my lilo config file: # File generated by DrakX/drakboot # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file default="linux" boot=/dev/hde map=/boot/map keytable=/boot/us.klt prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux" root=/dev/hdg1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdg5 splash=silent" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux-nonfb" root=/dev/hdg1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdg5" read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label="failsafe" root=/dev/hdg1 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="failsafe acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdg5" read-only other=/dev/hde1 label="Windows_XP_SP2" table=/dev/hde image=/dev/hdg7/kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r1 label="Gentoo" root=/dev/ram0 initrd=/dev/hdg7/initrd-2.6.9-gentoo-r1 append="init=/linuxrc ramdisk=8192 real_root=/dev/hdg9" vga=791 read-only image=/dev/hdg7/kernel-2.6.9-gentoo-r1 label="Gentoo_VGA" root=/dev/hdg9 append="vga=791" read-only I have attempted to use the Mandrake Boot Loader Configurator, as well as editing the file by hand. Both times, the result is the same. Any suggestions on the matter would be great. Thanks! |
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Thanks!
That answers my questions. I try to search throughly before I post, must have missed that one.
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