How can I chain boot GRUB (Fedora) from LILO (Slackware)?
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How can I chain boot GRUB (Fedora) from LILO (Slackware)?
Hello.
I just recently installed Fedora Core 4 on /dev/hdc1. My pre-existing Slackware 10.1 installation is on /dev/hda1. What I want to do is keep LILO and use it to boot GRUB, and from there Fedora Core. Any ideas?
I've tried setting LILO up to boot directly to the Fedora kernel, but since the fedora kernel is on a different partition, it tells me this when I try to write to the MBR (# lilo).
</home/dane/tmp/lzo-2.01>
[root@Orchestrator lzo-2.01]# lilo
Added Linux-2.4.29
Added Linux2.6.11.8 *
Fatal: open /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.11-1.1369_FC4: No such file or directory
How can I make it look for the kernel path on hdc instead of hda?
why not use grub to boot both? you can get a slack package of grub from the /extra directory, and it comes with a tool called grubconfig to easily set up your bootable partitions and write the bootloader.
I had a setup like this on one of my computers at one time. From memory, it was perfectly simple - just make sure Grub was installed in a root partition and not in MBR, since you want lilo to be there. Then in lilo.conf, use the same chainload command you'd use to double boot Windows... Googling for 'lilo chainload' will give you plenty of examples. I don't recall having to do anything special beyond that.
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