On Monday 12 July 2010 06:52:03 Philip Webb wrote: > My cousin in England wants to try out Linux & has an Ubuntu Live CD. > To help her, I've installed the same on a separate partition in my box. > The partition is /dev/sda8 & is formatted ReiserFS. > I use Lilo as boot manager & don't want to change to Grub > just to offer temporary help to someone, > so I refused to let the Ubuntu installer overwrite my MBR, > hoping to get Lilo to see Ubuntu via an appropriate 'lilo.conf'. > I've managed to get Lilo to add Ubuntu to the boot menu, > but only by mounting /dev/sda8 as /z/mount8 & using the line > > image = /z/mount8/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic > > However, when I reboot & select that image via its label, > I'm getting the hoary old 'VFS: can't open root device "808"'. > I've tried adding a dir /z/mount8 in the Ubuntu partition > with a symlink of 'boot' to '../../boot' there, but it doesn't help. > This does look rather messy, but I just want to be able to boot Ubuntu > in order to advise my cousin when she starts using her version. > > Is anyone successfully dual-booting Linux distros using Lilo ? > Might it be ReiserFS ? -- should I re-install Ubuntu with another FS ?
I think Ubuntu is using GRUB2. Anyhow, I suggest you install a separate boot partition with an ext2 fs and you install GRUB2 there instead of the MBR. Then chainload it from your LILO bootloader menu. -- Regards, Mick
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