On Thu, 2003-06-26 at 20:57, Ross Boylan wrote: > I got a system with Red Hat 9 preinstalled, booting with lilo. After > making some space, I installed Debian (testing) on it. I thought it > would be good to preserve the ability to boot into RH, so I mounted its > partitions under /red in linux this is the wrong thing to do, don't mount the redhat partition there, just use root=/dev/hdXX for redhat, where hdXX is the red hat root partition, you want redhat to use that partition as / not as /red
> , and modified its lilo.conf to use these > new paths. (That is, I created /etc/lilo.conf under Debian based on the > lilo conf from RH). > > Surprisingly, I find I'm unable to start RH doing this. I get > Kernel panic: No init found. Try passing init= option to the kernel > (it is already getting that option). > On the other hand, if I chroot to /red and run lilo -b /dev/fd0, I get > something I can boot off. that's right because the systen expects everything to be under / and not under /red Bijan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
