Anurag wrote:
Does your /etc/lilo.conf in morphix have this line in it?
boot=/dev/hda12
if not then edit it to this. and run "lilo" command.
Something funny is going on. When I mount the hda12 partition in my redhat, then amongst lilo files, I can see only lilo.conf.anaconda in its /etc folder. There are no other lilo files. However when I used the live cd to boot into edumorphix, its etc folder has no lilo related files, not even the lilo.conf.anaconda.
Edumorphix has 3 options during HDD install. 1. Install lilo on the MBR. 2 Install lilo on the root partition. 3. Do not install lilo.
My system has xp and redhat in dual boot with grub loader and the edumorphix is installed with lilo in its own root partition hda12. I visited some sites and they give usefull information but none of the combinations seem to work. I am beginning to doubt the edumorphix CD's option 2. Maybe its buggy.
Option 1 works but it removes my redhat entry. I had edited the /etc/lilo.conf then but somehow the changes didn't appear in the lilo boot screen, even after I had run lilo command after edit. There is also a gui utility to add other boot partitions but nothing got reflected in the boot screen. This CD is available with this month's LFY. Its website pages are still under development and knoppix or debian site instructions don't seem to work. Anyway, this was a good experience in backing up softwares, emails and docs and reinstalling linux, just like windows. All my linux data is intact.
This is a usefull link on the concept of grub
http://freeos.com/articles/3482/
Thanks, bye and good night,
Rony.