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Name: falconx
Date: June 29, 2003 at 16:55:05 Pacific
OS: Windows XP SP1, Mandrake
CPU/Ram: Athlon 1700+ @ 2.0GHz, 76
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Ok, I have Mandrake 8.2, Red Hat 9 and Windoze XP Pro installed, I can't seem to get either lilo or grub to boot red hat. Red hat is installed on a completely different drive than mandrake and windows, I don't know if this is the problem or not... Rh is on /dev/hdb9 and it is an ext3 drive. a screen shot of the error is
http://home.cogeco.ca/~lholder4/wtf.jpg. Any help is greatly appreciated, thanks in advance...



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Name: taurus
Date: June 29, 2003 at 17:59:38 Pacific
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It looks like you install lilo from Mandrake!!!
Okay, here is what you need to do... Boot up Mandrake and log in as root. Mount RedHat, /dev/hdb9 on /mnt/redhat or whatever the mount point is. Then, copy both vmlinuz from /mnt/redhat/boot to /boot and rename it to vmlinuz-redhat and /mnt/redhat/boot/initrd to /boot and rename it to initrd-redhat. Remember to rename those two files for RedHat or they will over-write your Mandrake's boot files!!! Then in /etc/lilo.conf, the entry for RedHat should look something like this,

image = /boot/vmlinuz-redhat
root = /dev/hdb9
label = redhat
initrd = /boot/initrd-redhat
read-only

Save it and run "lilo" again at the prompt. You should be all set for triple-boot then...

taurus


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