Hello everyone. I have a bit of a problem, and being the slacker that I am
, I would like to resolve this problem with the least amount of effort!
So I have installed fedora over my Windows 8 install on one of my hard disks because Windows 8 decided to take a shit on me one day, big surprise! I've been using Slackware everyday for the last year or so and I almost forgot what a crash was, but good old Windows reminded me.
Anyways, I installed grub to the MBR it boots fedora 20 just fine if I select the drive from the bios selection screen. I tried adding it to lilo by simply modifying the Windows entry I had there to reflect the new Fedora install and it failed to work, or lilo would not run. So then I created an fstab entry for the fedora install and mounted the partition and pointed lilo to the kernel image and initrd file and it starts to boot then gives nasty error and halts the system.
I have also now just copied the fedora kernel and initrd into my slackware boot folder but I get exactly the same results. I read that everyone else just uses grub to boot the system becuase grub auto detects slackware and will boot it just fine, but I love my slackware lilo and I don't want to change it. So how can I make this work ? Here's my lilo.conf:
#Slackware
image = /boot/vmlinuz-huge-3.10.17
#initrd = /boot/initrd.gz # add this line so that lilo sees initrd.gz
root = /dev/sda2
label = Slackware
read-only
#Fedora
image = /boot/vmlinuz-3.15.7-200.fc20.x86_64
initrd = /boot/initrd-3.15.7-200.fc20.x86_64.img # add this line so that lilo sees initrd.gz
root = /dev/sdc1
label = Fedora
read-only
Do I have to reinstall grub on fedora to a different location to get this to work? Or is there another way?
