[ale] Booting RedHat 5.2

[Gary Maltzen]

An alternate solution...

 1) shrink HDA3 slightly (2MB)
 2) create HDA4 as an extended partition
 3) create HDA5 as a minimal (2MB) logical
 4) copy vmlinuz to HDA5
    dd if=vmlinuz of=/dev/hda5
 5) set the root of HDA5 to HDD1
    rdev /dev/hda5 /dev/hdd1
 6) set root read-only at boot
    rdev -R /dev/hda5 1
 7) add HDA5 to your boot menu

This is equivalent to booting the kernel image from floppy and bypasses the
need to use LILO.

Yes, you could also have placed *just* the /boot (4MB) directory (with LILO)
on HDA5 to make life easier.

(Was the inclusion of dots in your return address an explicit move to make
your address create errors when replying?)

-----Original Message-----
 From: Ryan ...... <twobarrel at maxinter.net>


|    I have a question of which I am sure the answer is staring me in the
|face.  I am running a multiple boot system with multiple drives.  The
|configuration is :
|
|        HDA1 : DOS/WIN3.11
|        HDA2 : WIN95
|        HDA3 : WIN98
|        HDB1 : CALDERA 1.2
|        HDD1 : RedHat 5.2
|
|    I installed Partition Magic 4.0 and it's boot manager which
|recognizes all of the os's. It will boot the windoze partitions fine.  I
|am using the version of LILO which came with the Caldera 1.2 to boot
|Caldera 1.2 successfully.  I am hoping to find a way to use it to boot
|the RedHat 5.2 partition.  LILO knows the Linux partition on /dev/hdd1
|where RedHat resides is there.  Upon trying to boot RedHat from LILO I
|get the message from LILO saying it is booting the partition/os, but
|nothing else happens.
|
|    I did install RedHat's version of LILO to the /dev/hdd1 partition
|where RedHat resides.  When trying to boot this from Partition Magic's
|Boot Manager, I get
|
|        L I
|
|and nothing else.  The system locks up.
|
|    I tried creating a /boot partition on HDA, but there appears to be
|too many primary partitions already created.  Can I install /boot for
|RedHat to a logical partition instead?  Would this even help?
|
|    Currently, the only way I can boot into RedHat is to use the boot
|disk it made during installation.  I would prefer not to delete any
|partitions / os's because this computer is used for testing code and
|training / teaching people and I do not have the $$$ to purchase another
|computer.