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@pmpatrick - i have done that, /dev/hdb1 is mounted at /mnt/hdb1. and i have run lilo -v. @chris_z - my partition setup is thus: /dev/hdb1 - / /dev/hdb2 - swap /dev/hdb3 - /home /dev/hda3 - /boot /dev/hda6 - / /dev/hda7 - swap /dev/hda8 - /home & /dev/hda1 - Win C:\ /dev/hda2 - Win D:\ What i am thinking my problem is, has something to do with what i need in my /boot partition or what i need to tell lilo about my partiton structure. I have searched the internet high and low, and have yet to find anyone else trying to run two linux distributions on two different hard drives...... i didn't think what i was doing was so strange!

okay, no such luck! here is the code for the entry i changed, i am still getting the same errors when trying to boot linux from hdb and if i knew the name and location of the boot error messages file - i could put it here too.... but /var/log/boot.log only has entries from the 4th of october, and today is the 12th.... lilo.conf this is the entry i have difficulty with - everything else works just fine, but i cannot for the life of me, boot into linux on the second hard drive, from either the mbr, or a/boot partition on my first hard drive.... surely it's not as hard as i am finding it? or is this hard? :unsure:

okay, i have done as you said, and changed the paths in my lilo file, and mounted my hdb images to a path on hda, now for the reboot test - will let you know in about 5 minutes!!!

i have a 50 meg /boot partitoon at the begining of my first hard drive - /hda, the boot partitoon is /hda3. What do i need to put into the /boot folder to allow me to boot two different linux version on two different hard drives? here is the list of things thus far along with my lilo.conf file. /boot lilo.conf any help on this would be greatly appreciated, and if it turns out using lilo is a bad idea, i will happily use grub if need be! I also removed lilo from my mbr using: lilo -u and installed it into /dev/hda3 using: lilo -b /dev/hda3 /dev/hda3 being my /boot partition of course.

so.... any ideas on why linux_rc1 will not boot correctly now? it has got to be a lilo issue, and i am fairly confident it has got to do with the append field: append="devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent" but i'm not sure what it should say!

ok, here we go: # WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file boot=/dev/hda default="linux" prompt nowarn timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux" root=/dev/hda6 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent" vga=791 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label="failsafe" root=/dev/hda6 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="failsafe acpi=ht devfs=nomount" read-only other=/dev/hda1 label="windows" table=/dev/hda image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux_rc1" root=/dev/hdb1 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.3-15mdk.img append="devfs=mount acpi=ht splash=silent" read-only

lol, i've not yet posted lilo.conf cos i am at work... so i'm guessing that would help a lot then... hahahaha, when i get home tonight, i shall post the code of my lilo.conf file..... sorry guys at work, government departments in Australia still use windows 98..... freekin n00bs.

i think my issue is that when i reference /bot/vmlinuz from lilo to boot into hdb, it is trying to use my /boot/vmlinuz from hda and thus not working....... or is lilo smart enough to figure out that when i choose to boot into hdb, to take all /PATH's as from hdb? It's confusing because lilo has always just worked and i never really needed to know how it worked... now i have an error - i need to know... :(

this post is about the errors when i boot either kernel, which worked before i installed 10.1 - what i was originally asking is - what do i need to apend to lilo to allow me to boot into both hda and hdb...... hda works, but hdb won't - there are options i need to give lilo, but i am unsure of them.......

so installing grub will not overcome the issue i am having with booting two linux versions from two different hard drives? I still feel like my issue exists.... or am i missing somethin? :P

That means you haven't specified the correct /dev/hdaX location for your /boot/vmlinuz when choosing linux from the lilo menu (had the same error last night :D) To fix that... you will need to boot into linux (this is where a boot disk or cd helps) and change your /etc/lilo.conf file so that the section referring to linux points to the correct partition on your hard drive. And then type and run "lilo" after editing the file So if your linux drive is your first drive it will be /dev/hda1 for the first partition on the first drive.

i have lilo in my MBR.... of the first hard drive, does that change anything? can i use themes with grub? Anytime i have tried to use grub it's all been text based..... i have bootsplash themes installed... do they work withg rub? (i'm a linux-visuals freak, if it doesn't look good - i don't use it :D )

I have two completely independant hard drives, and wish to keep it that way. the hard drives should and hopefully will run independantly of one another, i.e. if i was to put the mdk10.1rc1 hard drive into another machine, it would work, and vice versa. I am planning on setting up a server, but wish to test it on my machine before putting together my server. Is there another way of making lilo boot two different linux kernels on two different hard drives without having to put the kernels in /boot of the first hard drive..... ? :unsure: also.... is it normal for there to be boot errors when trying to set something like this up?

I succesfully installed mandrake 10.1 RC1 onto a 20 gig hard drive at hdb, it overwrote my bootloader, which was fine, i booted into 10.1 and Xorg looks great! Changed my lilo config so i could get into 10.0 again, it worked fine, then added an entry for 10.1 into my fancy-as 73Lab boot loader using 10.0... now i can't get into 10.1 anymore... so what i am really asking i guess is - what do i have to do to be able to have two different linux versions on two different hard drives.... this is how it's set up: hda1 - Windows hda2 - Windows hda5 - / (mdk10) hda6 - swap (mdk10) hda7 - /home (mdk10) hdb1 - / (mdk10.1) hdb2 - swap (mdk10.1) hdb3 - /home (mdk10.1) I have lilo entries for: /dev/hda5 - Linux /dev/hdb1 - Linux_RC1 /dev/hda1 - Windows So what do i need to tell lilo to do so that i don't get errors when booting into: A. Mandrake 10.0 some things like /proc give fail messages B. Mandrake 10.1 won't boot at all (i think it's trying to link too things in hda cos of the way lilo boots it....) Any help with dual booting two linux o/s's from two hard drives would be greatlyu appreciated!

Ryzom looks fantastic!!! If they produce a linux client for that, i'm sold!!! Been waiting ages for an RPG to play in linux!!

i don't use the firewall in linux, but i remembered my router has a firewall, so i allowed anonymous NAT requests and forwarded ports 6881 through to 6889 to my machine and now it is working :D thank you very much!

Hey guys, i've been reading a few posts on torrents and linux from all over the web, and it seems that i need to open some of the ports the torrent program (Azureus.. .spelling?) uses. the only problem is, i am connected through a Linksys router/switch, and am not sure which ports to forward to my machine. I am trying to download the mandrake 10.1 RC1 via a torrent file, but it does not download any... is this because there is no one online with the file (which i thought highly unlikely), or because my the ports are not being formwarded to my machine and thus blocked by the router, stopping the torrent program from downloading anything...... On another note - i am using TorrentStorm in windows perfectly, on the same machine... any ideas?

no, 10.1 just comes with Xorg, which if you say is only a couple of weeks away... that would be great!!! I'm just a little edgey about updating to 10.1... cos everything works so well right now :D

Hey Guys, I got hold of the "xorg-x11-6.8.0-0.100.1mdk.i586.rpm" and when i tried to install it it tells me that: So i searched for libxkbfile.so.1 and downloaded " libxorg-x11-6.8.0-0.100.1mdk.i586.rpm" and then it tells me this: So of course i'm going to click okay and lose everything! :o Is there an easy fix for this ridiculous RPM problem? I am running mandrake 10 official, fully up-to-date.

as in the guy from Australian Idol? My surname is Dickinson.... so no i'm not related

@ac_dispatcher: how did you make the bootsplash use a custom image? That's fairly cool! @AussieJohn: not many people do seem to get the name joke ;) and that site would be a problem on a 21inch screen, try increasing the font size, in firefox you hold the control key and scroll your mouse wheel (i'm assuming you have both a control key and a mouse with a scroller)

i do't remember where i found mine, but i have affectionately named him: Fonzguin... as in the fonz penguin.

there are some very cool boot themes at http://www.73lab.com along with some nice splash screens and backgrounds :D deck lilo, booting and your splash screen with pingus, it looks great! :D i just found my new favourite site. :P :P

i much prefer that to the current control centre, the current one drives me bonkers at times! Can't wait to get 10.1 up and runnig :D

most of you may already be running it, but here is an RPM file that i located: http://rpm.pbone.net/index.php3/stat/4/idp...k.i586.rpm.html hope that helps some of you :P