Almost there (XP/Ubuntu/Mandriva triple-boot revisited)

[Tim Frost]

On Wed, 2006-02-01 at 10:42 -0600, Chuck Mattsen wrote:
> On Wednesday 01 February 2006 03:16, C Hamel wrote:
> CH> Good show.  After you cobble your lilo.conf file w/all three 
> OS, /sbin/lilo 
> CH> will make it work.  (...Or is it /usr/sbin/lilo??  I use Grub, myself.  Oh 
> CH> well. <LOL>)
> 
> A simple
> 	lilo
> on mine, though I've not been successful in my "cobbling" so far, as I get
> 	[root at localhost chuck]# lilo
> 	Added windows
> 	Added mandriva *
> 	Fatal: open /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386ubuntu: No such file or directory

Remember that lilo locates files at the time when you *run* lilo, and
expects them relative to the current file system layout.  This means
that you need to have the ubuntu kernel and initrd in the mandriva /boot
directory, named vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386ubuntu and
initrd.img-2.6.12-9-386ubuntu.


> 	[root at localhost chuck]#
> after my feeble attempts at adding the ubuntu section.  My lilo (with the 
> errant section) is below; any pointer as to what stupid thing I'm doing?  
> (ubuntu is on hda3, with swap on hda8)
> ==================
> default="mandriva"
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> keytable=/boot/us.klt
> menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
> prompt
> nowarn
> timeout=100
> message=/boot/message
> other=/dev/hda1
> 	label="windows"
> 	table=/dev/hda
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-13mdk-i686-up-4GB
> 	label="mandriva"
> 	root=/dev/hda5
> 	initrd=/boot/initrd.img
> 	append="nolapic resume=/dev/hda6 splash=verbose"
> 	vga=791
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.12-9-386ubuntu
>         label="ubuntu"
>         root=/dev/hda3
>         initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.12-9-386ubuntu
>         append="nolapic resume=/dev/hda8 splash=verbose"
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> Chuck MATTSEN / Mahnomen, MN, USA / mattsen at arvig.net
> Mandriva Linux release 2006.1 (Cooker) for i586
> kernel 2.6.12-13mdk-i686-up-4GB / RLU #346519
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