bootloader

[Le grand pinguin]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2004 at 10:22:19AM +0000, david wrote:
> On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 09:32, Sean Miller wrote:
> > david wrote:
> > 
> > >Greetings,
> > >
> > >I'm dual booting Ubuntu and Mandrake, I was fiddling with the Mandrake
> > >Lilo config and it reinstalled itself over the Ubuntu bootloader. Can I
> > >reinstall the Ubuntu loader? I can't see any options on the install cd
> > >to do this. I really don't want to have to reinstall Ubuntu. I've tried
> > >pointing Mandrakes lilo at Ubuntu but with no luck.
> > >  
> > >
> > Please post details of your lilo config -- there should be no reason, as 
> > far as I know, why it should not start Ubuntu... if you tell us what 
> > you've tried perhaps somebody can spot the error.
> > 
> > Best Wishes,
> > 
> > Sean
> 
> The appropriate section is as follows:
> 
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
> 	label="ubuntu"
> 	root=/dev/hda3
> 	initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.8.1-4-386
> 	read-only

This is pretty much a shot into the dark, but, since your
'/' seems to be on hda3, is it possible that '/boot' is actually
a separate partition (like, say hda1)? Iff so than you need to 
adapt the path for your kernel image and initrd.

 hth Ralf Mattes

> David
> 
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