Re: RH 6.0 & other Linux, Multi-boot

["Technoslick" <technoslick norwich net>]

I've interjected my replies below....

<snip>
B: Is it mounted?

T: hdb1, the second drive that RH 6 is on? No. Not through the normal
boot-up of Turbo Linux. It recognized the existence of the partition,
nothing more.

<snip>
B: That is correct.  Well, actually you need to mount it only long
enough to run lilo, so it doesn't need to be in fstab, but it does
need to be mounted when lilo runs.

T: So, how do a mount a partition prior to the reading of fstab, so that
LILO picks up the reference natively?

<snip>
B: You don't need commercial stuff to do this.  Pick the lilo.conf you
want to work with, and post it and your partition tables, and we'll
craft you a dual-boot lilo.conf.

T: OK. Here's the partition layout for both drives/distros. Keep in mind
that I can only boot into RH 6.1 using the emergency boot disk:

Primary Hard Drive - 3 GB

hda1 - 200 MBs - swap (for both drives/distros)
hda2 - ~ 2.8 GBs - Turbo Linux 3.0.1

lilo.conf

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
nowarn
image=/boot/vmlinuz
          label=turbolinux
          read-only
          root=/dev/hda2

fstab

/dev/hda1          swap                               swap
defaults                                        0 0
/dev/hda2         /                                       ext2
defaults                                        0 0
/dev/fd0            /mnt/floppy                       ext2
noauto                                         0 0
/dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom                       iso9660
noauto,ro                                     0 0
none                 /proc                                proc
defaults                                        0 0

Secondary Hard Drive - 3 GB

hdb1 - entire drive - Redhat 6.1

lilo.conf

boot=/dev/hdb
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
nowarn
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
          label=rhlinux6
          initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
          read-only
          root=/dev/hdb1

fstab

/dev/hdb1         /                                       ext2
defaults                                        0 0
/dev/cdrom       /mnt/cdrom                       iso9660
noauto,owner,ro                           0 0
/dev/hda1          swap                               swap
defaults                                        0 0
/dev/fd0            /mnt/floppy                       ext2
noauto,owner                               0 0
none                 /proc                                proc
defaults                                        0 0
none                 /dev/pts                            devpts
gid=5,mode=620                         0 0

Point of interest: When TurboLinux boots up, I get several errors in
recognizing, initializing and then loading the swap partition, /dev/hda1. It
says that the signature doesn't match that of a swap paritition. I do not
get this error in booting up Redhat 6.1.

I tried to mount /dev/hdb1 in TurboLinux's lilo.conf, but got error messages
in doing so. I am wondering if I screwed up the mnt point. Are you suppose
to make a directory (as /mnt/hdb1) or a file named 'hdb1' under /mnt? I did
the former...maybe this is why the mount failed? Still very new at this and
also symlinks. Also, I noticed in my lilo.conf on the XP/MDK multi-boot
system the instruction: 'ignore-table'. Is this something I need here, in
this multi-boot scenario?

Thanks for your efforts. The great thing about getting through this is the
each one thereafter will be 'a piece of cake!'

T