Hello,

I am trying to enable dual booting of Zenwalk Snapshot and Ubuntu using LILO. This is my fstab:

/dev/sda5 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sda6 / ext4 defaults,noatime 1 1
/dev/sda7 /home ext4 defaults,noatime 1 2
/dev/sda1 /ubuntu ext4 defaults,noatime 1 2
/dev/sda2 /ubuntu/home ext4 defaults,noatime 1 2
devpts /dev/pts devpts gid=5,mode=620 0 0
proc /proc proc defaults 0 0
tmpfs /dev/shm tmpfs nodev,nosuid,noexec,rw 0 0

This shows that my root directory of Ubuntu which is on /dev/sda1 is mounted as /ubuntu and my home partition of Ubuntu which is on /dev/sda2 is mounted as /ubuntu/home

I edited lilo.conf as shown below:

# LILO configuration file
# generated by 'liloconfig'
#
# Start LILO global section
append=" resume=/dev/sda5 splash quiet rootfstype=ext4"
boot = /dev/sda
bitmap=/boot/splash.bmp
bmp-table=234p,348p,1,4
bmp-colors=220,0,,255,220,
bmp-timer=539p,396p,220,0,
lba32
prompt
timeout = 750
# Override dangerous defaults that rewrite the partition table:
change-rules
reset
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
vga = 791
# Normal VGA console
# vga = normal
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x64k
# vga=791
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x32k
# vga=790
# VESA framebuffer console @ 1024x768x256
# vga=773
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x64k
# vga=788
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x32k
# vga=787
# VESA framebuffer console @ 800x600x256
# vga=771
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x64k
# vga=785
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x32k
# vga=784
# VESA framebuffer console @ 640x480x256
# vga=769
# End LILO global section
# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sda6
label = Zenwalk
# initrd = /boot/initrd.img
read-only
# Linux bootable partition config ends

# Linux bootable partition config begins
image = /ubuntu/boot/vmlinuz
root = /dev/sda1
label = Ubuntu
# initrd = /boot/initrd.img
read-only
# Linux bootable partition config ends

After this, if I run lilo only Zenwalk is showing in the LILO boot menu. I am unable to find the mistake. Can anybody help?

Anand

HI.
Ubuntu uses UUID to identify partitions.
Try in terminal :

ls -l /dev/disk/by-uuid


Afther then replace root = /dev/sda1 with the new value.

root = /dev/disk/by-uuid/XXXXXXXXXXXX

Hi sk-skuba,

I tried your solution. But it does not work.

Anand

You try
/sbin/lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf

Because lilo make a lilo.conf in /boot/tmp/ and use this file.If you take a look there, it is only zenwalk listed there.

Hi sk-skuba,

I tried this. It does not work. I tried rewriting grub in Ubuntu to include Zenwalk in the boot menu. But this listed only Ubuntu in the boot menu.

Anand

Try
update-grub
If not work, you have to create a file in /etc/grub.d/
make it 11_zenwalk, and make it executable.
mine is like this :

#!/bin/sh -e
#echo "Adding Zenwalk 7 to grub menu"

cat << EOF
menuentry "Zenwalk 7.0" {
insmod reiserfs
insmod raid
set root=(md1)
linux /boot/boot4/vmlinuz root=/dev/md1
initrd /boot/boot4/initrd.splash
}
EOF

Of course write youre system values.
Then run update-gub.

Hi,

After applying updates in Ubuntu I did update-grub in Ubuntu. This detectd Zenwalk. I did not do any thing. But why I cannot add Ubuntu to LILO boot menu is still a mystery.

Anand

It is not.
You have to look at /etc/fstab from Ubuntu to see how it identify the partitions.After that you have to set the zenwalk lilo.conf.I made it with Cent OS and FreeBSD too.
Finnaly I edited the /sbin/lilo to exclude lilotemp from there.