Re: [gentoo-user] anyone using Lilo to dual-boot ? -- discovery

[Mick]

On Monday 12 July 2010 17:21:52 Philip Webb wrote:
> Further ideas : I tried booting a Gentoo kernel with the Ubuntu  /
> & avoided the kernel panic, but ran into an Ubuntu init error,
> so there's nothing inherently wrong with  /dev/sda8 .
>
> Also, I checked the Ubuntu kernel config file, conveniently in  /boot ,
> which has ReiserFS configured as a module, whereas Ext2 & Ext3 are 'y'.
> That suggests that it's running into a road-block:
> it needs to use ReiserFS to start 'init',
> but can't load modules till it has already started 'init'.
>
> In that case, I need to re-install Ubuntu using Ext2 or Ext3 .
> In fact, it wb as a bug in Ubuntu's "advanced" install.
>
> Does that make sense to anyone else ?

No, I must have installed at least 3 Ubuntus in the last 6 months, all of them 
on reiserfs.  No problem booting them.

Unless you have stored a kernel image in a partition (e.g. /boot) that your 
lilo can read I don't think you'll be able to boot Ubuntu:

image=/boot/your_Ubuntu_image
   label=Ubuntu
   append="ramdisk_size=2900000"
   vga=normal
   initrd=/boot/your_ubuntu_initrd.gz
   read-only
   root=/dev/sda8

I don't use LILO so check the above to make sure there are no errors, and 
adjust it to your circumstances.

Finally, to check that your Ubuntu installation is correct you may be able to 
boot it using the Ubuntu LiveCD (I recall it offers the option to boot a 
partition on the hard drive, but I'm not 100% sure).
-- 
Regards,
Mick