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Heya, I just installed slax to a hard disk partition (sda10) and allowed the lilo bootloader to install to a floppy. I already have a grub bootloader with three other ...
  1. 10-03-2005 #1
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    SLAX hard drive installation and GRUB



    Heya,
    I just installed slax to a hard disk partition (sda10) and allowed the lilo bootloader to install to a floppy. I already have a grub bootloader with three other distros so i'm quite used to editing my grub menu.lst. I tried adding slax but it won't boot. It hangs at the line:
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     Runlevel 3:
... 
Starting sysklogd daemons /usr/sbin/sysklogd
...
    but it works when i boot from the floppy. i'm wondering if there are any special commands that lilo is passing to the kernel that i havn't included in my menu.lst which is:
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title Slax
kernel (hd0,9)/boot/vmlinuz ro root=/dev/sda10
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    Not sure, but you might need to create an initrd for it. Take a look here for more info and an example lilo file:

    http://slax.linux-live.org/doc_boot_iso_md5.php#lilo
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    I'm pretty sure it installs a lilo.conf file on that floppy as well. You might want to check to see how the LILO is configured on the floppy and just copy the commands over to GRUB.
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    how do i find the lilo.conf file? i tried mounting the floppy but there is nothing on it. though it sais there is a chunk of space used on it.
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    Now that I think about it, the lilo.conf file might be on the SLAX installation itself. See if you can find it under the /boot directory.

    And just FYI, this is what my Slackware installation look on my GRUB menu.lst file:
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    title           Slackware 10.1, kernel 2.4.29
root            (hd0,7)
kernel          /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 ro hdc=ide-scsi
savedefault
boot
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    Thanks everyone.
    I got it working by checking out this site :
    Quote Originally Posted by Ozar
    Not sure, but you might need to create an initrd for it. Take a look here for more info and an example lilo file:

    http://slax.linux-live.org/doc_boot_iso_md5.php#lilo
    and by adding the boot options showed there to the grub menu.lst (except for root=/dev/ram0... i added root=/dev/sda10 since it's on the 10th partition)
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