laudire Posted December 11, 2004 Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 Hi all! I have a Penthium II (500Mhz), 256 Mb RAM with 2 hds. On the first I have installed XP then Mandrake 9.0 then Xandros and tried installing Debian/Gnu. On the 2nd hd I have installed Ubuntu. I used Lilo in Xandros and Grub in Mdk. I can boot in Xandros and XP but when I boot into Mdk it goes as far as Postfix and then the screen goes black. If I try booting into Ubuntu the kernel gets initiated, the Xandros Lilo fades and the screen goes black. If I reinstall Mdk then I loose everything but Mdk and XP. Could you have a look at my Lilo and Grub and tell me if you see something wrong? Lilo: boot=/dev/hda install=/boot/cboot.b message=/boot/splash.lilo timeout=300 map=/boot/map prompt fix-table lba32 read-only disk=/dev/hda bios=0x80 disk=/dev/hdc bios=0x80 image=/vmlinuz label=[]s_Desktop_2.0 vga=0xf04 root=/dev/hda8 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.22-x1.gz append="rw acpi=on noagp " image=/vmlinuz label=Safe_Video_Mode vga=0xf04 root=/dev/hda8 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.22-x1.gz append="3 rw acpi=on noagp " image=/vmlinuz label={}ure_(Expert) vga=normal root=/dev/hda8 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.22-x1.gz append="single rw acpi=on noagp " image=/disks/ubuntu/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-3-386 label=Ubuntu_4.10 vga=normal root=/dev/hdc1 initrd=/disks/ubuntu/boot/initrd.img-2.6.8.1-3-386 append="root=/dev/hdc1 ro quiet splash" image=/disks/mandrake/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-16mdk label=mandrake vga=788 root=/dev/hda6 initrd=/disks/mandrake/boot/initrd-2.4.19-16mdk.img append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi" other=/dev/hda3 label=MS_W<> other=/dev/hda7 label=Linux_on_hda7 and here is my Mdk Grub: timeout 10 color black/cyan yellow/cyan i18n (hd0,4)/grub/messages keytable (hd0,4)/us.klt altconfigfile (hd0,4)/grub/menu.once default 0 title linux kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 quiet devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi vga=788 initrd (hd0,4)/initrd.img title linux-nonfb kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi initrd (hd0,4)/initrd.img title failsafe kernel (hd0,4)/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda6 failsafe devfs=nomount hdd=ide-scsi initrd (hd0,4)/initrd.img title windows root (hd0,2) makeactive chainloader +1 title windows2 root (hd0,3) makeactive chainloader +1 By the way why is it that I have 2 Mdk partitions; a Mdk and a Mdk/boot? Any suggestion will be greatly appreciated! Rejean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
laudire Posted December 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted December 11, 2004 Good news everyone!!! I just changed the settings for the Mdk vga from "788" to "normal" and I can now boot into Mandrake. All I have to fugure out is Ubuntu and see if I can install Debian Gnu/Linux or Suse and I will be a happy pinguin. Thanks anyway! Réjean Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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