LiLo configuration for 3 OS-es on the same machine.
Dear my friends... I have 3 Operating System on my machine : SuSE Linux, Mandrake Linux and Windows. I have 2 harddisks. First harddisk has Windows and Mandrake linux and the second HD has SuSE Linux. I want that I can start each of the OS-es from LiLo (I love comfortable life) easily. But I am confious how the lilo config file should be. Please tell my.... Thank you very much in advance. __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com
Prabu Subroto wrote:
I have 3 Operating System on my machine : SuSE Linux, Mandrake Linux and Windows. I have 2 harddisks. First harddisk has Windows and Mandrake linux and the second HD has SuSE Linux.
I want that I can start each of the OS-es from LiLo (I love comfortable life) easily. But I am confious how the lilo config file should be.
You don't say what version of Windows you have. If it's NT/2000/XP then you need to use the Windows loader as the primary loader. You can use it to load lilo as a secondary loader, see http://www.littlewhitedog.com/reviews_other_00011.asp for one howto. But I would recommend using GRUB as the secondary loader, because it's easier to change the config later. You'll just edit a text file called menu.lst in Mandrake's /boot/grub directory, whereas with lilo you have to edit the config, rerun lilo and then copy the bootblock onto the windows partition every time, which is a real pain. For a howto, see: http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html Either lilo or grub can be configured to load many choices of Linux. Cheers, Dave
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You don't say what version of Windows you have. If it's NT/2000/XP then you need to use the Windows loader as the primary loader. You can use it to load lilo as a secondary loader, see
Not necessarily true. I have a dual boot WinXp and Linux system and I am using grub as the bootloader. I guess in certain situations you will need to allow Windows to use it's bootloader. I boot my Xp through grub with no problems. Again I guess it depends on the situation. -- Marshall "Nothing is impossible, we just do not have all the anwsers to make the impossible, possible."
Marshall Heartley <heartley@earthlink.net> [2003-09-15 08:54]:
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You don't say what version of Windows you have. If it's NT/2000/XP then you need to use the Windows loader as the primary loader. You can use it to load lilo as a secondary loader, see
Not necessarily true. I have a dual boot WinXp and Linux system and I am using grub as the bootloader.
I've got XP & SuSE 8.2 booting from LILO, which calls the XP loader when "Windows" is chosen from the LILO menu. -rex
Dear Dave... OK prefer to use Grub as the primary loader (boot manager). I can start the SuSE and Windows XP (I use XP) properly but the problem is : I can not start my Mandrake because no menu for mandrake written on grub configuration file. So I want to ask, do you know how the configuration file of GRUB should be? I got 2 HD, first HD have Windows XP (first partition) and Mandrake Linux (the rest space of HD on different partition). I put the SuSE on the second HD. Please tell me.... TIC So much. --- Dave Howorth <dhoworth@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
Prabu Subroto wrote:
I have 3 Operating System on my machine : SuSE Linux, Mandrake Linux and Windows. I have 2 harddisks. First harddisk has Windows and Mandrake linux and the second HD has SuSE Linux.
I want that I can start each of the OS-es from LiLo (I love comfortable life) easily. But I am confious how the lilo config file should be.
You don't say what version of Windows you have. If it's NT/2000/XP then you need to use the Windows loader as the primary loader. You can use it to load lilo as a secondary loader, see
http://www.littlewhitedog.com/reviews_other_00011.asp
for one howto.
But I would recommend using GRUB as the secondary loader, because it's easier to change the config later. You'll just edit a text file called menu.lst in Mandrake's /boot/grub directory, whereas with lilo you have to edit the config, rerun lilo and then copy the bootblock onto the windows partition every time, which is a real pain. For a howto, see:
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html
Either lilo or grub can be configured to load many choices of Linux.
Cheers, Dave
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You can access it either through yast (System->boot loader configuration) either editing directly /boot/grub/menu.lst Sergio A las 03:47 del 16 de Sep de 2003, Prabu Subroto <prabusubroto@yahoo.com> dijo:
Dear Dave...
OK prefer to use Grub as the primary loader (boot manager). I can start the SuSE and Windows XP (I use XP) properly but the problem is : I can not start my Mandrake because no menu for mandrake written on grub configuration file.
So I want to ask, do you know how the configuration file of GRUB should be? I got 2 HD, first HD have Windows XP (first partition) and Mandrake Linux (the rest space of HD on different partition). I put the SuSE on the second HD.
Please tell me.... TIC So much. --- Dave Howorth <dhoworth@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
Prabu Subroto wrote:
I have 3 Operating System on my machine : SuSE Linux, Mandrake Linux and Windows. I have 2 harddisks. First harddisk has Windows and Mandrake linux and the second HD has SuSE Linux.
I want that I can start each of the OS-es from LiLo (I love comfortable life) easily. But I am confious how the lilo config file should be.
You don't say what version of Windows you have. If it's NT/2000/XP then you need to use the Windows loader as the primary loader. You can use it to load lilo as a secondary loader, see
http://www.littlewhitedog.com/reviews_other_00011.asp
for one howto.
But I would recommend using GRUB as the secondary loader, because it's easier to change the config later. You'll just edit a text file called menu.lst in Mandrake's /boot/grub directory, whereas with lilo you have to edit the config, rerun lilo and then copy the bootblock onto the windows partition every time, which is a real pain. For a howto, see:
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html
Either lilo or grub can be configured to load many choices of Linux.
Cheers, Dave
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Yes... I've known that before.... But on YaST2 there is somewhat like Autowizard as a guide to config the menu. OK I tried this but it doesn't work : # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Tue Sep 16 12:54:09 2003 # added by NeTraverse - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE, it's used for uninstall default 4 # end added by NeTraverse - DO NOT REMOVE THIS LINE, it's used for uninstall # Modified by YaST2. Last modification on Mon Apr 14 20:15:28 2003 gfxmenu (hd0,4)/message color white/blue black/light-gray timeout 8 title suselinux kernel (hd1,4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb5 vga=791 initrd (hd1,4)/initrd title windows root (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 tile mandrakelin kernel (hd1,4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda7 vga=791 initrd (hd1,4)/initrd title floppy root (fd0) chainloader +1 title failsafe kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz.shipped root=/dev/hda7 ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal nosmp maxcpus=0 disableapic 3 initrd (hd0,4)/initrd.shipped title Win4Lin kernel (hd0,4)/win4lin root=/dev/hdb5 vga=791 initrd (hd0,4)/initrd --- Sergio Dominguez <sergio@skynet.ie> wrote:
You can access it either through yast (System->boot loader configuration)
either editing directly /boot/grub/menu.lst
Sergio
Dear Dave...
OK prefer to use Grub as the primary loader (boot manager). I can start the SuSE and Windows XP (I use XP) properly but the problem is : I can not start my Mandrake because no menu for mandrake written on grub configuration file.
So I want to ask, do you know how the configuration file of GRUB should be? I got 2 HD, first HD have Windows XP (first
and Mandrake Linux (the rest space of HD on different partition). I put the SuSE on the second HD.
Please tell me.... TIC So much. --- Dave Howorth <dhoworth@mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk> wrote:
Prabu Subroto wrote:
I have 3 Operating System on my machine : SuSE Linux, Mandrake Linux and Windows. I have 2 harddisks. First harddisk has Windows and Mandrake linux and the second HD has SuSE Linux.
I want that I can start each of the OS-es from LiLo (I love comfortable life) easily. But I am confious how the lilo config file should be.
You don't say what version of Windows you have. If it's NT/2000/XP then you need to use the Windows loader as the
A las 03:47 del 16 de Sep de 2003, Prabu Subroto <prabusubroto@yahoo.com> dijo: partition) primary
loader. You can use it to load lilo as a secondary loader, see
http://www.littlewhitedog.com/reviews_other_00011.asp
for one howto.
But I would recommend using GRUB as the
loader, because it's easier to change the config later. You'll just edit a text file called menu.lst in Mandrake's /boot/grub directory, whereas with lilo you have to edit the config, rerun lilo and then copy the bootblock onto the windows partition every time, which is a real
secondary pain.
For a howto, see:
http://www.geocities.com/epark/linux/grub-w2k-HOWTO.html
Either lilo or grub can be configured to load
many
choices of Linux.
Cheers, Dave
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* Prabu Subroto <prabusubroto@yahoo.com> (Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 03:47:36AM -0700)
Dear Dave...
OK prefer to use Grub as the primary loader (boot manager). I can start the SuSE and Windows XP (I use XP) properly but the problem is : I can not start my Mandrake because no menu for mandrake written on grub configuration file.
So I want to ask, do you know how the configuration file of GRUB should be?
Try typing info grub at the command line and read that. It should explain it all. Kind regards, -- Gerhard den Hollander Phone :+31-10.280.1515 ICT manager Direct:+31-10.280.1539 Jason Geosystems BV Fax :+31-10.280.1511 gdenhollander@Fugro-Jason.com POBox 1573 visit us at http://www.Fugro-Jason.com 3000 BN Rotterdam JASON.......#1 in Reservoir Characterization The Netherlands This e-mail and any attachment is/are intended solely for the named addressee(s) and may contain information that is confidential and privileged.
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