partitions renamed hde(n)-->sda(n) --- lilo ?

[rhaynes]

Hi, here is the situation:

 

I originally had mandrake 10.0 installed on several partitions with /

(and hence /boot) was on /dev/hde6 with other partitions on

/dev/hde5--9. When I installed

mandrake 2006 in place of winxp the installer indicated that partitions

were being renumbered 5 -->6, 6-->7 etc... and the 2006 installer

called the partitions /dev/sda(n) instead of /dev/hde(n). I left all

of the mandrake partitions alone --- except for the renaming by the

2006 installer/partitioning tool.

 

The installed went fine, I installed a bootloader from the 2006 in the

master boot record.

 

I am able to boot 2006 fine. Now I am trying to configure lilo to

boot the old mandrake distribution. The question is what changes do

I have to make to the lilo.conf file (from 2006) to boot the old

distribution. Do I have make changes to the fstab file (from the 10.0

distribution)? Should I change references to partitions on the

mandrake 10.0 side to refer to /dev/sda(n) instead of /dev/hde(n)? What

about the lilo.conf file (in 2006)? When I add a boot entry for

mandrake 10.0 should i say root=/dev/hde7 or /dev/sda7? Should I copy

the kernel images (from 10.0) over to the /boot on the 2006 side? Or

can I somehow refer to the kernel images on the /dev/hde7 (sda7)

partition?

 

This has me quite confused ---as you can tell from the message above.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

Sincerely,

R Haynes

[devries]

Make a backup of your present settings and then let Mandriva do it for you. Boot from install CD1, hit F1 and type rescue. Install Lilo again and it will detect al other partitions and installs.