I have installed Fedora Core 3 on different partitions than those used by Mandrake ; my fedora partitions are like this :
/dev/hdb1 "/"
/dev/hdb5 "/swap"
/dev/hdb7 "/usr/local"
During the installation it was proposed to me to install GRUB on "/dev/hda" where as far as I know I have my LILO installed to boot my Mandrake ; the I had to select the only option left to me : no bootloader ;
Strange; I would have expected there to be an option to install grub on /dev/hdb1 too.
> after this all was
installed smoothly onto the hereabove mentioned partitions and hopefully the job should not have been done in vain ; now which kind of entry do I have to put inseret on my LILO bootloader to switch to my Fedora at boot ? ; basically the way I installed my Fedora distribution is it usable ?
It should be OK. I haven't used LILO for a long time myself so this may be wrong but I think what you need is a lilo.conf entry like this:
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667 label=fc3 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img read-only root=/dev/hdb1
You will of course need to make a new entry after you have upgraded your kernel. It would be a good idea to install grub on /dev/hdb1 and add a
LILO entry to chain-load grub; I *think* the following lilo.conf entry may be what you need to do this, once you've installed grub.
other=/dev/hdb1 label=grub
Paul.
