[GLLUG] Fun with LILO

[Sean]

You can get around the rebooting if you use the -C flag to Lilo
and point to the lilo.conf file that has everything defined correctly.

That is also pretty handy if you have to boot off an emergency disk 
because you forgot to run lilo after installing a kernel and you deleted 
the old one. *innocents* =) 

Sean 


On Tue, 3 Jun 2003, Melson, Paul wrote:

> I ran into this years ago trying to run a dual-boot configuration for
> RedHat 6 and Slackware 3.4.  (RedHat has since abandoned LILO for grub.)
> My solution was to opt for RedHat to install LILO to its root partition
> and have only Slackware install LILO to the MBR.  This meant that
> Slackware was the "master" and any changes I wanted to make for RedHat
> (i.e. booting a custom/updated kernel) required booting to Slackware and
> editing its /etc/lilo.conf to reflect the changes and then running
> `lilo` to write them to the MBR.
> 
> PaulM
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chick Tower [mailto:c.tower at express56.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, June 03, 2003 4:09 PM
> To: linux-user at egr.msu.edu
> Subject: [GLLUG] Fun with LILO
> 
> 
> I just had an interesting go-round in my first attempt to set up 
> LILO.  I was using the admin programs for Mandrake 9.0 and Vector 
> Linux 3.2 (based upon Slackware 8.1), so I never used the command-
> line.  The two distros use different versions of the Linux kernel.  I 
> also have a Win98SE partition I wanted to inlcude in my boot options, 
> and that one worked fine every time.  However, whenever I installed 
> LILO from one of the distros and used it to make my selection upon 
> boot, both distros would report using the version of the kernel for 
> whichever distro I had used to install LILO in the MBR, which caused 
> problems for the other distro.  I have one hard disk, so the boot 
> disk had to be /dev/hda.  Both had a /boot/map file, so I left the 
> reference to it in the global section of lilo.conf.  Luckily, I 
> figured out how to use grub (which came only with Mandrake) to make 
> my boot selections.
> 
> Has anyone else ever had this problem with LILO, and figured out how 
> to use it successfully?
> 
>                     Chick
> 
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