Lilo and grub

[scrarfussi]

I have just installed slackware 12.1 and opensuse 11 now i can't seem to pick up slackware's lilo from my suse's grub any help would be greatly appreciated thanx

[oz]

Have you tried the SuperGRUB LIveCD?

It works for installing/reinstalling GRUB and LILO bootloaders (and Windows for that matter).

[Jonathan183]

Are you trying to chainload LILO from grub something like this?

[scrarfussi]

Hi oz i'm not sure what super grub cd is gonna do cause i've already got grub and it works
I'm trying to do as jonathon said chainload lilo from grub thanx for the link but i had not installed lilo to the root partition had installed it to mbr so i could try out slackware after that i installed opensuse on a diff partition and i thought grub would pick up lilo as it normally picks up other grub menu's now i cannot boot slackware anymore is there a way i can fix this add slackware to my grub menu list

[devils casper]

is there a way i can fix this add slackware to my grub menu list

Add an entry of Slackware in Opensuse's menu.lst file.
Mount / ( or /boot, if you created it ) partition of Slackware and note down kernel version ( vmlinuz.xxxx ).
add this code in menu.lst of OpenSuSe :

title Slackware 
root (hdx,y)
kernel  /boot/vmlinuz.xxxx ro root=/dev/hdx
initrd    /boot/intrd.xxxxx

* Relace x and y with relevant values.

In case you have any confusion, post the contents of /etc/lilo.conf file of Slackware here.

[scrarfussi]

hmmm thanx but since i cant boot slackware at the mo how do i find out what kernel version it is

[devils casper]

As I suggested earlier, you have to mount / partition of Slackware in SuSe or use any LiveCD.

[scrarfussi]

my apologies i missed the mount part i know how to mount but what do i do after i mount sorry ive never done this before

[devils casper]

Let say, /dev/sda5 is / partition of Slackware.
Execute this

mkdir /media/slack
mount -t ext3 /dev/sda5  /media/slack 
less /media/slack/etc/lilo.conf

Post output here.

[scrarfussi]

got it this is what i got i only copied the last part as it seems the most important

# vga=787
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x256
# vga=771
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x64k
# vga=785
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x32k
# vga=784
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x256
# vga=769
# End LILO global section
# Windows bootable partition config begins
other = /dev/hda1
label = Windows
table = /dev/hda
# Windows bootable partition config ends
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/hda9
label = Linux
read-only
# Linux bootable partition config ends