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Hi, everyone.
I finally installed Slackware and now I have Windows, Slackware and Ubuntu in my laptop.
I installed Ubuntu at the last order and at that time GRUB the default loader. But I feel that I'd like to use lilo more, so I booted into Slackware and run "lilo" and then lilo became the default loader.
But then I cannot access Ubuntu anymore. Because in lilo there're no information about Ubuntu.
So I added some information about Ubuntu according to that of Windows in lilo. But that failed. I still cannot access Ubuntu.
I searched for the posts about this problem, and this is what they say:
Greetz
Maybe this is a hangover from older times using 3rd party bootloaders like Xosl and AirBoot but I like redundancy. I install all systems bootloaders to the root partition, edit conf to refer to all others and then only have one on the main MBR. That way if i can even get to one, I can get to them all. This may not apply to your system now since most people don't have but two bootable systems on one box. Not only do I experiment with "testbed" installs but I like having a maintenance system. Granted LiveCDs have greatly diminished their value but there are still some advantages to an actual hdd install.
In this specific case it sounds like you have at least two Linuxes. The easiest way is to chainload as in
Code:
Other=Ubuntu
root=/dev/foo
where "foo" is drive and partition. The only caveat IIRC, is that you need to symlink the desired Ubuntu kernel from /boot to /vmlinuz so the kernel can be found with just /dev/foo
Haha~ The first "sda7" was just a QUOTE that someone else took for an example~
Now I got this solved.
Just mount the disk and then finding the "image" and "initrd" file would be very easy.
And add
Are you sure that you are running ubuntu with its native kernel? For me all this looks like miracle - the solution. But maybe (it is possible) in fact you are running ubuntu with Slackware kernel. I can imagine that huge-smp kernel is able to do that. I did this some time ago.
Are you sure that you are running ubuntu with its native kernel? For me all this looks like miracle - the solution. But maybe (it is possible) in fact you are running ubuntu with Slackware kernel. I can imagine that huge-smp kernel is able to do that. I did this some time ago.
0.0 Sorry.. I'm really a newbie so I'm not sure if I can catch your point.
My slackware is installed in /dev/sda1 and Ubuntu is in /dev/sda5. I mounted the disk sda5 to /mnt/hd and then I added the info using files in /mnt/hd/boot/. So I think I'm running Ubuntu kernel...
Is there a way to detect whether I'm running Ubuntu or Slackware kernel?
BTW, I have no "ub" folder in slackware(at least I didn't find it - -).
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