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Multiboot Windows XP/Mandrake 9.2/Red Hat 9, Please HELP
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| maarten 2004-03-12, 10:38 am |
| Hi,
Can someone give me a hint how to make Red Hat 9 work without a bootflop
I have a system with two disks.
On the the first Windows XP is install (I am a NewBie!!)
The seconds disk I partitioned as follows:
hdb1 , primary, EXT3 8G for Mandrake
hdb2 , primary, EXT3 8G for Red Hat 9
hdb5 EXT3 750 MB for Swap
hdb6 fat32 10G for backup purpose
XP prof was installed previously on the first disk
I then installed Mandrake with Lilo on hdb1 . This works fine.
Atfer this I installed Red Hat 9
During installation there was a alert grub couldn't install. This was fine
by me because i was already using Lilo. The install program let me make a
boot disk.
Booting with this disk works fine but I edited the lilo with Mandrake to
point to Red Hat on the basis with was specified in the file syslinux.cfg
that was on the floppy.
Now the booting start at first looking good but then it stops and I dont
know what to do:
Can anyone please help me
Below you find the contents of the lilo.conf and the syslinux.cfg
lilo.conf :
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
default="Windows_XP"
keytable=/boot/us-latin1.klt
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="Mandrake_9.2"
root=/dev/hdb1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdb5 splash=silent"
vga=791
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux-nonfb"
root=/dev/hdb1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdb5"
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="failsafe"
root=/dev/hdb1
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="failsafe devfs=nomount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdb5"
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label="Windows_XP"
table=/dev/hda
other=/dev/fd0
label="floppy"
unsafe
#appended on the basis of bootflop info
#
#
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="RedHat_9"
root=/dev/hdb2
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi resume=/dev/hdb5"
vga=791
read-only
syslinux.cfg
default linux
prompt 1
display boot.msg
timeout 100
label linux
kernel vmlinuz
append initrd=initrd.img hdd=ide-scsi root=/dev/hdb2
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| Nils O. Selåsdal 2004-03-12, 11:36 am |
| In article <4051d534$0$3804$ba620dc5@nova.planet.nl>, maarten wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can someone give me a hint how to make Red Hat 9 work without a bootflop
>
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> vga=normal
> default="Windows_XP"
> keytable=/boot/us-latin1.klt
> prompt
> nowarn
> timeout=100
> message=/boot/message
> menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label="Mandrake_9.2"
> root=/dev/hdb1
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdb5 splash=silent"
> vga=791
> read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label="linux-nonfb"
> root=/dev/hdb1
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdb5"
> read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label="failsafe"
> root=/dev/hdb1
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> append="failsafe devfs=nomount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=ht resume=/dev/hdb5"
> read-only
> other=/dev/hda1
> label="Windows_XP"
> table=/dev/hda
> other=/dev/fd0
> label="floppy"
> unsafe
> #appended on the basis of bootflop info
> #
> #
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> label="RedHat_9"
> root=/dev/hdb2
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi resume=/dev/hdb5"
try rather:
append="hdd=ide-scsi root=/dev/hdb2"
> vga=791
loost the above.
what you didn't say was when it stops , and what (if any)
error message you get.. (which would be very helpful..)
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| Bit Twister 2004-03-12, 12:36 pm |
| ["Followup-To:" header set to linux.redhat.install.]
On Fri, 12 Mar 2004 16:20:19 +0100, maarten wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Can someone give me a hint how to make Red Hat 9 work without a bootflop
> I have a system with two disks.
> On the the first Windows XP is install (I am a NewBie!!)
> The seconds disk I partitioned as follows:
> hdb1 , primary, EXT3 8G for Mandrake
> hdb2 , primary, EXT3 8G for Red Hat 9
> hdb5 EXT3 750 MB for Swap
> hdb6 fat32 10G for backup purpose
>
> XP prof was installed previously on the first disk
> I then installed Mandrake with Lilo on hdb1 . This works fine.
> Atfer this I installed Red Hat 9
> During installation there was a alert grub couldn't install. This was fine
> by me because i was already using Lilo. The install program let me make a
> boot disk.
> Booting with this disk works fine but I edited the lilo with Mandrake to
> point to Red Hat on the basis with was specified in the file syslinux.cfg
> that was on the floppy.
> Now the booting start at first looking good but then it stops and I dont
> know what to do:
Example snippet from my lilo.conf
image=/rh80/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
label=rh80
initrd=/rh80/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img
read-only
append="root=LABEL=/"
I have the Redhat partition mounted at /rh80 on my Mandrake install.
vmlinux and img were found by looking in the Redhat boot directory.
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