Triple Boot system

[Dragonx4]

I recently put Slackware 10 on a second partition with Mandrake 10. I have Windows XP on a drive by itself. I am running Mandrake's Lilo and everything boots up fine except for the fact that Slackware is using the default Mandrake kernel. Can I change this? If so, do I change it in Mandrake or Slackware? When I try to start x in slackware all I get is a blank screen and I have to ctrl alt F7 to get out of it. Any suggestions? (The kernel is 2.6.3-4mdk, I would like 2.6.7 for slackware) Thanks!

[U-Turn]

You'll need to edit Mandrakes lilo.conf so that the Slackware boot section points to Slackware's kernel. Once you've done that, just run lilo and reboot to Slackware.

[krussell]

use the slackware installation cd to boot, then in run "setup" as you did before, then configure LILO from there. its the best method i have ever used.

[imdeemvp]

has any one been able to boot into slackware using the grub in fedora?? I HAVE TO BOOT FROM FLOPPY.

this is my fdisk:

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 * 1 101586 51199123+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb2 101586 150027 24414264 83 Linux <<- SLACK 10
/dev/hdb3 150027 151965 976752 82 Linux swap
/dev/hdb4 151966 238216 43470504 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hdb5 151966 152168 102280+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb6 152169 234153 41320408+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb7 234154 238216 2047720+ 82 Linux swap
[root@imdeemvp imdeemvp]#

[tuubaaku]

yeah, that's my setup. here's the slackware part of my grub.conf:

title Slackware 9.1 (2.4.22)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-ide-2.4.22 ro root=/dev/hda6

[imdeemvp]

now using my fdisk setup (slave hd) can you give me and example for the grub i tried so many things and iam not successfull in booting into slackware

BTW can i see your fdisk?

[tuubaaku]

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 765 6144831 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hda2 766 2040 10241437+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda3 2041 4863 22675747+ 5 Extended
/dev/hda5 2041 2103 506016 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda6 2104 2773 5381743+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda7 2774 3382 4891761 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 3383 3626 1959898+ b Win95 FAT32

Just install Slackware, but ignore the part about Lilo. Boot into Fedora Core and manually edit the grub.conf file, adding the Slackware entry.

default=0
timeout=10
splashimage=(hd0,1)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title Fedora Core 1 (2.4.22-1.2199.nptl)
root (hd0,1)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2199.nptl ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi rhgb
initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2199.nptl.img
title Windows XP Home
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
title Slackware 9.1 (2.4.22)
root (hd0,5)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-ide-2.4.22 ro root=/dev/hda6
title Yoper
root (hd0,6)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.8.1-3 root=/dev/hda7 ro
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.8.1-3.img

[operator]

I tryied for 4 months to run slack10 and mandrake9.2 plus win2003 - finally .... i gave up!!!! - I managed to boot all three OSs but there was loads conflict between slack and drake, i.e. no sound was detected by slack, and many modules werent even found - I resolved that by changing the swap partition but then I had the same prob on drake (no sound, no modules, etc..) - even the mouse was giving me probs - so as a newbie I concluded that perhaps it's impossible to allow 2 linux OSs to share hardware on the same box - newbiew's word ... I may be wrong, but Iwould love to try again if someone has a very useful hint