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till today I had:
slackware 10.2 on hda2 (reiser)
win on hda3
my lilo.con was:
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# cat /etc/lilo.conf
# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
boot="/dev/hda"
#compact # faster, but won't work on all systems.
prompt
timeout="300"
# Normal VGA console
vga="773"
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image="/boot/vmlinuz"
root="/dev/hda2"
label="Linux_Slackware"
read-only # Non-UMSDOS filesystems should be mounted read-only for checking
# Linux bootable partition config ends
# Windows bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/hda3
label = Window_XP_SP2
table = /dev/hda
# Windows bootable partition config ends
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everithing was perfect till I installed today fedora core on my other hard disk [/dev/hdc1](ext3) without bootloader option
Now i don't know how to configure lilo to be able boot fedora too
I've tried:
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mount /dev/hdc1 /mnt/tmp
ls /mnt/tmp/boot/
grub
System.map-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen
symvers-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen.gz
xen-syms-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
config-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen
initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen.img
vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen
xen.gz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6
added to my lilo.conf ->
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image=/mnt/tmp/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen
label="FC6"
root=/dev/hdc1
initrd=/mnt/tmp/boot/initrd-2.6.18-1.2798.fc6xen.img
read-only
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Distribution: Xubuntu, Mythbuntu, Lubuntu, Picuntu, Mint 18.1, Debian Jessie
Posts: 1,207
Rep:
I have Fedora and Slack dual booting using grub since that is the FC boot loader. Just add Slack's info to grub.conf on the Fedora partition and hash out the hiddenmenu entry (#hiddenmenu).
Also, setup Fedora to boot using GRUB. You can use the first FC install cd or DVD for this. Let me know if you have problems and I'll send you more info from my Fedora/Slack box.
Last edited by linuxhippy; 10-27-2006 at 01:10 PM.
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