On Saturday 11 June 2005 13:03, Rony Bill wrote:
sherlock@vsnl.com wrote:
why bother with lilo when grub can boot everything you throw at it.
That's exactly my query. LILO is not my choice, thats what Xandros gives to the user.
Xandros target market is a windows zombie who will almost never have more than one linux distro on his machine. As a system integrator your requirements are different.
Pls post your menu.lst. This will be in the partition of the distro that installed grub. Also partition details. The easy way to debug a grub problem is to open a grub shell and issue commands manually.
# This entry automatically added by the Debian installer for an existing # linux installation on /dev/hda12. title Mandrake Linux 10.1 (on /dev/hda12) root (hd0,11) kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda12 ro acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda10 initrd /boot/initrd.img savedefault boot
# This entry was added manually after loading Xandros 3 on /dev/hda11 title Xandros 3 (on /dev/hda11) kernel (hd0,10)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-x1 initrd (hd0,10)/boot/initrd-2.6.9-x1.gz savedefault
kernel (hd0,10/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-x1 root=/dev/hda11 you did not tell the kernel it's root partition. The error would have been kernel panic unable to mount root filesystem blah blah
rgds jtd