First, I apologize for a lilo question. I'm not finding answers in the other threads I've searched which makes me wonder if it's an Ubuntu issue. Perhaps you can help.
I just installed Ubuntu (Hoary install) on an existing dual-boot system. I installed it over the previous WinXP partition. Ubuntu wanted to use Grub as the bootloader, but it failed on the install. It did however present me with Lilo which was already listed because I had been dual-booting with WinXP/Mandrake.
Now the newb problem.
Ubuntu loads fine (love it), but I'm not presented with a menu to choose to boot into Mandrake, which I had hoped for. I checked the partitions to see how things were listed and it looks like:
Code:
Disk label type: msdos
Minor Start End Type Filesystem Flags
1 0.031 27862.734 primary ext3 boot
2 27862.734 38154.375 extended lba
5 27862.765 37636.655 logical ext3
6 37636.686 38154.375 logical
I then brought up the lilo.conf file and edited it to be (not listing the comments):
Code:
boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/hda1
install=menu
map=/boot/map
delay=40
vga=normal
default=Linux
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only
initrd=/initrd.img
image=/vmlinuz.old
label=LinuxOLD
read-only
optional
initrd=/initrd.img.old
other=/dev/hda5
label="Mandrake 10.1"
When I then /sbin/lilo I receive a message:
Code:
Warning: LBA32 addressing assumed
Reading boot sector from /dev/hda
Warning: Kernel & BIOS return differing head/sector geometries for device 0x80
Kernel: 65535 cylinders, 16 heads, 63 sectors
BIOS: 1024 cylinders, 255 heads, 63 sectors
Warning: '/proc/partitions' does not match '/dev' directory structure.
Name change: '/dev/dm-0' -> '/dev/evms/hda1'
Name change: '/dev/dm-1' -> '/dev/evms/hda5'
Name change: '/dev/dm-2' -> '/dev/evms/hda6'
Using MENU secondary loader
Calling map_insert_data
Boot image: /vmlinuz -> boot/vmlinuz-2.6.10-4-386
Mapping RAM disk /initrd.img -> boot/initrd.img-2.6.10-4-386
Added Linux *
Skipping /vmlinuz.old
Boot other: /dev/hda5, loader CHAIN
Fatal: First sector of /dev/hda5 doesn't have a valid boot signature
Now there are a bunch of useful Ubuntu comments in the lilo.conf file, but I don't think they'd be causing a problem (although I haven't tested that yet). Any idea of what I am missing or doing incorrectly?
