[ale] Getting Linux OS to boot

[zeb]

On Thursday 27 January 2005 15:33, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> Geoffrey wrote:
> > Trey Sizemore wrote:
> >> Well, in the Mandrake rescue mode, I told it to install the
> >> bootloader to the MBR for /dev/hdb, but it didn't prompt me for
> >> which one.  I can find a lilo.conf but no grub.conf even though
> >> both are installed.  I don't know *which* bootloader it is!
> >
> > Look in /boot/grub for menu.lst rather than grub.conf
>
> No, I don't appear to have that either.  Assuming I use lilo to
> boot mandrake (big assume) would my lilo.conf entries be thus:
>
> image=/mnt/fedora/boot/vmlinuz
>     label=fedora
>     root=/dev/hdb1
>     initrd=/mnt/fedora/boot/initrd.img
>
> image=/mnt/suse/boot/vmlinuz
>     label=suse
>     root=/dev/hdb5
>     initrd=/mnt/suse/boot/initrd
>
> 1 - it appears that I can just point to vmlinz in both cases as
> they are symlinks to the current vmlinuz files (same for initrd)?
> 2 - do I need the /mnt/XXX/ or can I just say something like
> image=/boot/vmlinuz?
>
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I have used lilo to boot multiple operating systems.  I do it a 
different way.  If the above procedure does not work, re-post and I 
will tell you how I have done it.

Regards....