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.
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
The above entry is added by me. Please note that I tried different combinations of the same during boot time by using e and b. I even copied the kernel and image from the working bootable floppy to the root partition and tried to boot form that too but it would get stuck at kernel panic. This had happenned earlier too when I tried out Edumorphix which had lilo and was also based on debian.
Regards,
Rony.
___________________________________________________________ How much free photo storage do you get? Store your holiday snaps for FREE with Yahoo! Photos http://uk.photos.yahoo.com