| Daeron 2004-12-30, 5:45 pm |
| Trent Buck wrote:
> Up spake Daeron:
>
>
> . . .
> When you install the bootloader, it copies the initrds to the MBR and
> remembers the partition and path of the kernels.
>
> The definitive reference for this stuff is the From Power Up to Bash
> Prompt HOWTO,
> http://tldp.org/HOWTO/From-PowerUp-...ompt-HOWTO.html
>
>
> I use LILO (rather than GRUB).
> The lilo.conf file looks something like this:
>
> # Warning: this is based on a working Debian config.
> # FC and MDK may differ slightly.
>
> # Where is the bootloader installed:
> boot=/dev/hdb
>
> vga=normal
> lba32
> install=menu
> map=/boot/map
> delay=5
> prompt
> timeout=100
> read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.6-2-686-smp
> label="Mandrake"
> initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.6-2-686-smp
> root=/dev/hda1
> image=/mnt/hdb1/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.6
> label="Fedora Core 3"
> initrd=/mnt/hdb1/boot/initrd.img-2.4.6
> root=/dev/hdb1
>
> If FC3 is installed to /dev/hdb1 and Mandrake is bootable, you should be
> able to use something similar to the above in /etc/lilo.conf to install
> the bootloader onto the second disk's MBR.
>
> (Note: you don't have to install the bootloader from the distro it boots
> into -- e.g. you could install it from Mandrake or the FC rescue CD.)
THank you Trent;
excellent reference & example conf file.
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