booting old linux installation - dualboot
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Hi All, I have just installed my workstation with SuSE on a new disk, while I kept my old RH installation on the old disk. I cannot manage to boot into RedHat now. SuSE did a default lilo setup that included the old disk, but when I select RedHat linux in lilo boot, it gives me another, non-graphical lilo selection menu with all the boot options and it will only boot in one of the SuSE options. I have tried different options, but all I got so far is to boot the SuSE kernel, but with the RedHat root. (All modules fail ofcourse.) Any ideas as to how to boot in RH again? My partitions: /dev/hda -- SuSE MBR /dev/hda1 / (SuSE) /dev/hda2 swap (SuSE) /dev/hdb -- RH MBR /dev/hdb1 /boot (RH) /dev/hdb5 /data (RH) /dev/hdb7 / (RH) /dev/hdb6 swap (RH) My current lilo.conf: boot = /dev/hda change-rules reset read-only menu-scheme = Wg:kw:Wg:Wg lba32 prompt timeout = 80 message = /boot/message image = /boot/vmlinuz label = linux append = "hdd=ide-scsi" initrd = /boot/initrd root = /dev/hda1 vga = 791 image = /boot/vmlinuz.suse label = failsafe append = "ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off hdd=ide-scsi" initrd = /boot/initrd.suse optional root = /dev/hda1 vga = 791 image = /boot/memtest.bin label = memtest86 image = /dev/hdb label = "RedHat linux" Thanks -- Andre Truter Software Engineer Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 AIM: trusoftzaf http://www.trusoft.za.net <-------------------------------------------------> < The box said: Requires Windows 95 or better... > < So I installed Linux > <------------------------------------------------->
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Andre, Your lilo.conf root directories both point to the SuSE root. Try setting the second lilo section root entry (that is to say the first occurance of the word "root") to read: root = /dev/hdb1 Good luck! Bill On Tue, 2002-05-28 at 15:36, Andre Truter wrote:
Hi All,
I have just installed my workstation with SuSE on a new disk, while I kept my old RH installation on the old disk.
I cannot manage to boot into RedHat now.
SuSE did a default lilo setup that included the old disk, but when I select RedHat linux in lilo boot, it gives me another, non-graphical lilo selection menu with all the boot options and it will only boot in one of the SuSE options.
I have tried different options, but all I got so far is to boot the SuSE kernel, but with the RedHat root. (All modules fail ofcourse.)
Any ideas as to how to boot in RH again?
My partitions:
/dev/hda -- SuSE MBR /dev/hda1 / (SuSE) /dev/hda2 swap (SuSE)
/dev/hdb -- RH MBR /dev/hdb1 /boot (RH) /dev/hdb5 /data (RH) /dev/hdb7 / (RH) /dev/hdb6 swap (RH)
My current lilo.conf:
boot = /dev/hda change-rules reset read-only menu-scheme = Wg:kw:Wg:Wg lba32 prompt timeout = 80 message = /boot/message
image = /boot/vmlinuz label = linux append = "hdd=ide-scsi" initrd = /boot/initrd root = /dev/hda1 vga = 791
image = /boot/vmlinuz.suse label = failsafe append = "ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off hdd=ide-scsi" initrd = /boot/initrd.suse optional root = /dev/hda1 vga = 791
image = /boot/memtest.bin label = memtest86
image = /dev/hdb label = "RedHat linux"
Thanks --
Andre Truter Software Engineer Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 AIM: trusoftzaf http://www.trusoft.za.net
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On Wed, 2002-05-29 at 00:09, bill burton wrote:
Andre,
Your lilo.conf root directories both point to the SuSE root. Try setting the second lilo section root entry (that is to say the first occurance of the word "root") to read:
root = /dev/hdb1
Good luck!
Bill
Thanks Bill, I have tried that, but the machine then did a boot with the SuSE kernel and the RH root.. quite interesting. Anyway, your mail got me thinking a bit more and I just copied my RH kernel and related stuff from the RH /boot to SuSE /boot and then pointed the RH entry of lilo to the RH kernel, with the root that you mentioned. This works! Thanks -- Andre Truter Software Engineer Registered Linux user #185282 ICQ #40935899 AIM: trusoftzaf http://www.trusoft.za.net <-------------------------------------------------> < The box said: Requires Windows 95 or better... > < So I installed Linux > <------------------------------------------------->
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