Howdy rrfish72

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I have Kanotix, Knoppix, windowsxp, windows 98 installed
on my computer. But I cannot get to the kanotix
install because it is not one of the OS choices.
How do I get it to be on the lilo boot screen?
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You probably just need to add it to you lilo.conf,
then as root run "lilo" to update its' map file.

Insidently, the map file will likely be found
in the same directory as the one which houses the kernel.

With lilo, when you alter the lilo.conf file, as per a
kernel/OS addition, you need to have the directory
that holds the kernel mounted. So that lilo can map
its' location. This is a disk mapping, not a
mount mapping. So it dosen't matter where you mount the
directory. Usually this means that every install that
lilo will be dealing with needs to be mounted somewhere.
But thats not strickly true. If you use a sepeerate boot
directory, to house all your kernels, then that will
be the only one needed to be mounted. Other OSs' don't
require this. I guess the chain loader looks after this
somehow.

Not updating lilo is the most common thing thats
ever overlooked.


Hey Crashed, howdy ...

I noticed that you have some of your kernels assigned
to the "image" keyword using "/mnt" as part of its'
path. It dosent really matter, but you don't really
need to do that. As far as having them mounted to
update lilo, the root path is sufficient. That
is; you can mount them anywere. The mapping dosen't
involve the actual mount point, for the mapping,
if that makes sense .
The mount point is just a fs abstaction, for our
benifit. It dosen't effect the actual "sector"
location on disk. Which is all lilo needs to know.

jm