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My cousin in England wants to try out Linux & has an Ubuntu Live CD. |
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To help her, I've installed the same on a separate partition in my box. |
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The partition is /dev/sda8 & is formatted ReiserFS. |
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I use Lilo as boot manager & don't want to change to Grub |
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just to offer temporary help to someone, |
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so I refused to let the Ubuntu installer overwrite my MBR, |
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hoping to get Lilo to see Ubuntu via an appropriate 'lilo.conf'. |
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I've managed to get Lilo to add Ubuntu to the boot menu, |
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but only by mounting /dev/sda8 as /z/mount8 & using the line |
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image = /z/mount8/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.32-21-generic |
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However, when I reboot & select that image via its label, |
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I'm getting the hoary old 'VFS: can't open root device "808"'. |
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I've tried adding a dir /z/mount8 in the Ubuntu partition |
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with a symlink of 'boot' to '../../boot' there, but it doesn't help. |
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This does look rather messy, but I just want to be able to boot Ubuntu |
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in order to advise my cousin when she starts using her version. |
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Is anyone successfully dual-booting Linux distros using Lilo ? |
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Might it be ReiserFS ? -- should I re-install Ubuntu with another FS ? |
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