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unbound18
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 Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 5:28 am Post subject: Dual boot Mandrake/Gentoo Emergency |
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Help!
Here is my situation, and I'd appreciate any help I could get. I currently have two hard drives. One initially had Win2000 and the other had Mandrake 9.1. I decided to install Gentoo on a second partition on the windows drive. The problem is that when I installed Gentoo it messed with my boot loader. Now I can boot into Gentoo and Windows. I really need to be able to boot into my Mandarke system and I don't know what to do. All I should have to do is edit /etc/lilo.conf and add the Mandrake address right? I have no idea how to do this. I didn't note any of the Mandrake kernel information as I didn't intend to loose it all. If someone could help me out I would really appreciate it.
Thanks in advance..
In case it helps. The Mandrake drive is /dev/hdb1 for boot and /dev/hdb3 for root. |
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unbound18
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 5:38 am Post subject: |
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I know i have to change the fstab too. Just don't know how.
Thanks again |
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ectospasm
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| Posted: Tue Oct 14, 2003 6:48 am Post subject: |
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If you can boot into Gentoo you should have no problems mounting the Mandrake partitions, assuming that you have all the necessary kernel drivers loaded. I would do something like this:
| Code: | | host root# mount -t auto /dev/hdb1 /mnt/boot |
That should be all you need to figure out how to set up lilo.conf correctly to load your Mandrake partition. Oh, yeah, the above command assumes you have the mount point /mnt/boot created already. If not, create it with mkdir.
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cyrillic
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| Posted: Wed Oct 15, 2003 12:53 am Post subject: |
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| unbound18 wrote: | | All I should have to do is edit /etc/lilo.conf and add the Mandrake address right? I have no idea how to do this. I didn't note any of the Mandrake kernel information as I didn't intend to loose it all. |
If you want to look at Mandrake's bootloader info, boot Gentoo then try this.
| Code: | # mkdir /mnt/mandrake
# mount /dev/hdb3 /mnt/mandrake
# less /mnt/mandrake/etc/lilo.conf |
Then just copy the interesting parts to setup Gentoo's bootloader. |
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