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Old 11-20-2004, 09:28 AM   #1
rrfish72
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Installed Red Hat 9 - need help with lilo entry....


After installing Red Hat I choose not to install it's boot loader because I use Mandrake's lilo and like it. I need to get help with what the Red Hat entry should look like in lilo. Here is what my lilo.conf looks like now:

default="WindowsXP"
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
keytable=/boot/us.klt
prompt
nowarn
#timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="Mandrake"
root=/dev/hda4
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=nomount acpi=ht splash=silent"
vga=788
read-only
image=/mnt/hda6/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-kanotix-5
label="Kanotix"
root=/dev/hda6
vga=791
append="ramdisk_size=100000 lang=us apm=power-off hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi hdh=scsi nomce alsa noinitrd.img"
read-only
other=/dev/hda2
label="WindowsXP"
table=/dev/hda

I need the entry for Red Hat. It is on hda1 and boots fine from the floppy boot disk.
I did not want to reconfigure all the entries for the other OS's that is why I choose not to install the red hat bootloader. I didn't want to take the chance that the bootloader woould not detect all the partitions and OS's. Any help appreciated.
 
Old 11-21-2004, 03:02 AM   #2
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That was a poor decision. Preferably, you would install the bootloader of Red Hat Linux (GRUB or LILO) in /dev/hda1 and chainload it from your primary bootloader in the MBR.

Btw, Red Hat Linux 9 has reached end-of-life, so instead of starting with it now, you better get its successor, Fedora Core.
 
  


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