LILO configuration in Slackware
Hai,
Due to some discussions about Arch linux with other distros, I just decided to give a try with Arch to see what are all the things it has. And more over I installed Ubuntu too .
I tried to configure the lilo but I can not able to do that. Currently Ubuntu boot loader is in MBR. And it list all the OS that I have. But, I want the lilo to be in MBR. Here are my sda details,
sda1 - Windows 7
sda10 - Slackware
sda13- Arch
sda14 - Ubuntu
sda15- Fedora - [ / - partition ]
sda16 - Fedora
In LILO , currently I have
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sda10
label = Slackware
read-only
#Windows
other = /dev/sda1
label = Please_DO_NOT_CHOOSE
table = /dev/sda
To configure Fedora15 in lilo i added,
root = /dev/sda15
label = Fedora_Love_Lock
And for Arch,
root = /dev/sda13
label = Arch_Linux
when tried to install lilo, I got
I tried with giving absolute path,
and I got
If I comment the Fedora config then I get the same error for Arch linux too.
How can I configure all 5 OS in lilo.
Thank you
Comments
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ok. By referring Slackbook, I used "liloconfig" to configure the system. The only difference is,
Instead of/vmlinuz-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686
,
the "liloconfig" loaded/boot/vmlinuz/
I took those from Ubuntu GRUB loader config file.
But, the lilo is looking for, "/boot/vmlinuz" only. Need to dig around with this more.0 -
Lilo is reading the current root partition when writing the mbr image, which is why you are getting the error message.With lilo I store all of my boot images onto a single partition which is mounted by all OSs to avoid this issue.
However since Ubuntu is the default you should be able to use the os-probe option for grub2 in Ubuntu to have it detect and append the other operating systems to the boot loader.0 -
I tried to edit Ubuntu [ though It listed all correctly, I want to change the label name ] . But, its like a Essay . Though it was easy to understand that, I want the lilo, which is very very cool boot loader screen .
I managed to load all Linux and one NTFS os in lilo and currently things are going fine.
So far not booted with Arch . Need to give a try in weekend.
I was unaware about the reason for the error . Thanks for explaining that. And thats a nice trick .0 -
Now that I think about the issue I may have taken the hard approach, I know that it does not see the other partitions because they are not mounted, thus it cannot verify the records. What I would like you to try is mounting the other partitions within slackware before running the update command, if this works then the problem would be due to limited visibility.0
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I added all of my Linux and NTFS partitions in fstab and during boot time all are get mounted automatically. And when updating LILO I cross checked the availability of the partition. It was there.
I took,/vmlinuz-2.6.38.6-26.rc1.fc15.i686
from UBUNTU GRUB conf. But, LILO is always using/boot/vmlinuz/
But, still there are some problems with Arch and Fedora . I am trying to solve . If not get done, I will get back to forums concern threads.0
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