Fedora on the second disk

[Paul Howarth]

Gu, John A. (US SSA) wrote:
> I put the Fedora on the second disk, hdb in addition to my RedHat 8 on 
> hda. I would like to make the lilo selectable. But when I choose the 
> Fedora, the screen shows “LI”. (I can see hdb using fdisk if boot from 
> hda). Please help on my lilo.conf.
> 
>  
> 
> prompt
> timeout=50
> default=rh8
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> restricted
> message=/boot/message
> lba32
> 
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14
>       label=rh8
>       read-only
>       initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img
>       append="root=/dev/hda3"
> other=/dev/hdb
>       label=Fedora

What boot loader option did you use when installing Fedora?

No boot loader, or install grub on root or boot partition?

The latter is the right choice to have made, and you'll need to specify 
the actual partition for the Fedora root or /boot partition in your 
lilo.conf file (e.g. /dev/hdb1), not the entire disk (/dev/hdb) as you 
have it at the moment.

If you did not install a boot loader at all, you'll need to install one, 
e.g. by booting from the rescue CD and installing grub, or by re-running 
the installation. Adding the Fedora kernel/initrd to your lilo.conf 
manually is not a good idea because you'll need to make frequent manual 
changes due to the frequency of kernel updates.

Paul.