lilo help

[plasmid]

I was wondering how to set up lilo to boot up several distros. I told lilo to boot up one from distro, who was on /dev/hda1 so I set that to be root, and the other distro with the root /dev/hdb1. Problem was, lilo was only looking for the kernel on the first harddrive...which caused problems since I have one distro using the 2.4 kernel, while the other uses 2.2.

Any ideas on how to solve this? I had a work arround where I had lilo installed on each hd...once in the MBR of hda, then other on hdb1...the first lilo had an entry to lauch a non linux os on hdb1, which caused the other lilo to load that os. This is sloppy in my opinion and I would like a better way to do it.

Thanks

-plasmid

[trekker]

Check this (http://www.troubleshooters.com/linux/lilo.htm) out. :D

Maybe someone can write an NHF for this Maybe I'll give it a shot at writing one myself.... after I finish my final project presentation... :rolleyes:

I did a forum search and found quite a no of threads relating to this. So if the link above doesn't help, you might want to check out the threads to pick up more tips.

Hope this helps :)

[ 27 April 2001: Message edited by: trekker ]

[plasmid]

ok, I checked out that site...and my thoughts are that there must be a better way! This method seems no better than mine of having multiple lilos...one for each distro, residing on the partition that is used for that os...and then having your lilo on the MBR point to the others as "other=/dev/(whatever partition)

I really hope there is a simpler way.

-plasmid

[WeDeliver]

Try "man lilo" and look in the "lilo.conf" file.