Dual booting with Gentoo

[Scourge]

Now we're getting somewhere

What are the contents of the /gentoo-root/boot directory?

Posted them allready,


scourge boot # ls
boot vmlinux


remember?

(Or do I remember wrong and didn't post it hmm)
Anyway.

Flatline, and yes.

I know what needs to be told to lilo / grub them to boot correctly.

But the problem was more like "how" I put it there.

Some dude sayd that lilo doens't know how to boot from another disk, and he putted his slackware kernel image to Gentoos /boot dir and worked fine..

Maybe I should try that..

[Flatline]

Sorry. So you should just need to give your lilo.conf file the path to the kernel image...

# Gentoo

image = /gentoo-root/boot/vmlinux
root = /dev/hdc3
label = Gentoo
read-only

Incidentally, that /boot directory shows something named boot...is that a directory or a file? If it's a directory, could you post the contents?

[dylunio]

You did post trhem before, you should add a stanza line this to your lilo.conf:

image=/boot/vmliunx
root = /dev/hdc3
label = Gentoo

dylunio

[Flatline]

It is always a good policy to be neat with one's fstab Fatline;

I agree, but I was just saying he could fix that later (I tend to be a "one thing at a time" kinda guy.

By the way, there's no need to call me fatline; I'm sensitive about my weight

[Scourge]

Sorry. So you should just need to give your lilo.conf file the path to the kernel image...

# Gentoo

image = /gentoo-root/boot/vmlinux
root = /dev/hdc3
label = Gentoo
read-only

Incidentally, that /boot directory shows something named boot...is that a directory or a file? If it's a directory, could you post the contents?

I'm not really sure what it is.

I looked in there long time a go before u came in to help me.

But anyway, it doesn't lead anywhere. Except back.

Dunno.

Anyway,

I tryed this:

root@scourge:/boot# cp /gentoo-root/boot/vmlinux /boot/
root@scourge:/boot# mv vmlinux vmlinux-gentoo

and then mobifyed lilo.conf

image = /boot/vmlinux-gentoo
root = /dev/hdc3
label = Gentoo
read-only

then run lilo:

root@scourge:/boot# lilo
Added Slackware *
Fatal: Setup length exceeds 31 maximum; kernel setup will overwrite boot loader


Wtf?

[Flatline]

Why don't you give the setup I gave you a shot and see if it works?

[dylunio]

Once you have edited your lilo.conf you must run as root

/sbin/lilo

THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT!

dylunio

[Scourge]

Yea I've done everything you told me and tryed stuff what u didn't told not to (I know something about linux so I tryed few things)

but that fatal error with lilo scares me a bit..

[Flatline]

Try

image = /gentoo-root/boot/vmlinux
root = /dev/hdc3
label = Gentoo
read-only

[Scourge]

Try

image = /gentoo-root/boot/vmlinux
root = /dev/hdc3
label = Gentoo
read-only

Tryed allready. Same fatal error..