Adding another distro into LiLo

[martinfromdublin]

Hi all,

I've added Knoppix to my system and want to add it to the Mandrake LiLo, the partition is mounted but I've tried (through the IRC) to add it using various root console commands, no success. Can anyone help?

Martin,

Dublin, Ireland

[AlexK]

Hi,
As root, go to the /etc/lilo.conf file and manually add it. Or if you want to do it by the GUI, goto the Mandrake COntrol Centre and select the option along the lines of boot setup or boot configuration.

[martinfromdublin]

Hi AlexK,

I tried manuallty added it, it wouldn't let me write to the file. The Mandrake Centre is looking for the root or Kernal image and I can't sort that out.

Martin,

Dublin, Ireland

[martinfromdublin]

I should also have said that I can see the vmlinuz file for Knoppix, I just can't get drakboot to point to where the file is located, what I need is a walk-through entering the correct paramters, can you help me?

Martin,

Dublin, Ireland

[AlexK]

Ok,
the easiest way to accomplish this is to edit the lilo.conf file directly.
as root do the following:
open the /etc/lilo.conf file in Kate or any text editor.
insert the following lines in the lilo.conf file

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label="knoppix"
root=/dev/hdaX (replace X with the harddisk partition where knoppix resides)
initrd=/boot/initrd.img
read-only

[martinfromdublin]

Hi AlexK,

That seems to have worked, thanks. Knoppix is now booting but I get error messages during the boot up "/lib/modules/2.6.8.1-mdk no such file or directory" , they're Mandrake files aren't they? Why is Knoppix trying to load them? Also, when knoppix boots up, there's no sound, no internet (I'm on broadband so the ethernet card should be automatically configured) some of drives/partitons aren't mounted and I can't configure the network settings, keep getting error messages in German.

This must be something to do with how LiLo is loading Knoppix but I may post all these issues in the Knoppix foum to see if anyone can help me re-configure the distro. Stange thing is when I tested Knoppix using it's own bootloader, Grub, everything worked fine.

But thanks again for the help, much appreciated.

Martin,

Dublin, Ireland

[AlexK]

I think I know where the problem is. the initrd entery may be wrong for knoppix. You'll have to find the location of the knoppix boot image. and replcce the intrd entry with something like:

initrd = knoppix boot image location.
and
image = knoppix vmlinuz location

[martinfromdublin]

Alex,

Can you go into the IRC and we can try this live?

[martinfromdublin]

If not, how to I determine the location of the boot image? I can view the contents of the partition through Konqueror in Mandrake

[martinfromdublin]

Also, is there any data I can post here from the root Konsole that would help?