RE: Getting LILO right

2001-03-17 Thread Rick Commo
Thank you Tom and David! I was being *completely* thrown off by the fact that there was the "root" directive and I thought that the "image" directive was root-relative!! OK then, so at this point, I will try the band aids mentioned. But at this point I will probably scrape the disk and repartiti

Re: Getting LILO right

2001-03-17 Thread David Raeker-Jordan
One of the best explainations I have seen is at: http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lilo.htm Rick Commo wrote: > Partitions: >hda1 => Mandrake Linux 7.2 (installed first) >hda5 => Debian potato (stable - don't play with it) >hda6 => Mandrake 8.0 beta1 >hda7 => Debian potato (sa

Re: Getting LILO right

2001-03-17 Thread Tom Pfeifer
The problem is that you are using the same kernel to boot all 4 installations. Each one of your 4 boot menu choices specifies 'image=/boot/vmlinuz' You have to specify the path to each kernel that you want to run for each installation in /etc/lilo.conf. There's a few ways to do that. For example

Getting LILO right

2001-03-17 Thread Rick Commo
Partitions: hda1 => Mandrake Linux 7.2 (installed first) hda5 => Debian potato (stable - don't play with it) hda6 => Mandrake 8.0 beta1 hda7 => Debian potato (sandbox - play here and then move to stable) Problem: During boot, on any Linux version except ML 7.2, there are dependency err