On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 13:39, Bijan Soleymani wrote: > On Fri, 2003-06-27 at 12:51, Ross Boylan wrote: > > To clarify: I mounted the red hat partitions under /red when running > > Debian. My understanding is the lilo's map, and so it's boot process, > > use absolute disk locations and so shouldn't care how I get to the > > files. The lilo.conf under Debian refers to them like /red/boot/... > oh ok, sorry about that. > > > RedHat's fstab does refer to the partitions as /dev/sdaXX, and does > > not use the /red root. > > > > So I don't think the use of /red is the source of the problem. Of > > course, at this point, everything is suspect. I have triple-checked > > that I'm actually referring to the right partitions under Debian. > > Could you post the lilo.conf file. It could help out in figuring what is > wrong. > > P.S. I usually copy all the different kernels onto the same partition > (seperate /boot, or / of one system in particular) and boot off of that > and then use root=partition to decide which system to use. > > Bijan The kernels are all in one partition. It's /boot under RH, /red/boot under Debian. For debian, /boot is a symlink to /red/boot/debian, so all my debian stuff is in a subdir. Rather complicated, I know.
The system with the relevant lilo.conf isn't speaking to the world yet, but I think I can mail the file out under a separate cover. It should appear on the list shortly after this message. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
