Question about lilo.conf, /boot, and initrd

joe joe at tlnf.com
Sat May 13 09:39:28 MST 2006


.
Hope someone can help me solve the problem I have with lilo.conf 
and trying to boot up with the win4lin kernel and start 'win' on 
my new Mandriva 6 installation. Everything in the Mandriva 
installation seems to work fine, but when I type 'win' at the 
command line, win4lin and win98 start, but then immediately 
after the win4lin/win98 window opens, I see a pop-up dialog box 
within the win98 window within 2-3 seconds that reads as follows: 

                Merge Winsock2 Configured. 
     Shutting down Windows to complete installation. 
                      Please wait. 

... and then that window just closes. 

Below are the most recent lilo.conf file contents and in the 
/boot directory contents shown below that. 

Can anyone tell me what changes I need to make to get this to work? 

joe at actionline.com 

== lilo.conf ... looks like this: (/boot directory is shown below this)
# File generated by DrakX/drakboot
# WARNING: do not forget to run lilo after modifying this file

default="linux"
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
keytable=/boot/us.klt
menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
prompt
nowarn
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
image=/boot/vmlinuz
       label="linux"
       root=/dev/hda6
       initrd=/boot/initrd.img
       append="resume=/dev/hda2"
image=/boot/vmlinuz
       label="failsafe"
       root=/dev/hda6
       initrd=/boot/initrd.img
       append="failsafe resume=/dev/hda2"
other=/dev/hdb1
       label="windows"
       table=/dev/hdb
       map-drive=0x80
          to=0x81
       map-drive=0x81
          to=0x80
image=/boot/win4lin
       label="win4lin"
       root=/dev/hda6
       initrd=/boot/initrd-win4lin.img
       append="resume=/dev/hda2"
image=/boot/win4lin-2.6.12-12mdk
       label="win4lin-2612-12"
       root=/dev/hda6
       initrd=/boot/initrd-win4lin-2.6.12-12mdk.img
       append="resume=/dev/hda2"
[joe at localhost etc]$  

== /boot directory looks like this:
-rw-r--r--  1 root 1608520 Sep  9  2005 vmlinuz-2.6.12-12mdk
-rw-r--r--  1 root  639316 Sep  9  2005 System.map-2.6.12-12mdk
-rw-r--r--  1 root   71299 Sep  9  2005 config-2.6.12-12mdk
-rw-r--r--  1 root  254766 Sep 12  2005 message-graphic
-rw-r--r--  1 root 1608539 Sep 13  2005 win4lin-2.6.12-12mdk
-rw-r--r--  1 root  640831 Sep 13  2005 System.map.win4lin-2.6.12-12mdk
drwxr-xr-x  2 root    4096 Jan  7 16:06 grub/
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root      20 Jan  7 16:14 vmlinuz -> vmlinuz-2.6.12-12mdk
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root      23 Jan  7 16:14 initrd.img -> initrd-2.6.12-12mdk.img
-rw-r--r--  1 root  115694 Jan  7 16:14 initrd-2.6.12-12mdk.img
-rw-r--r--  1 root     256 Jan  7 16:15 us.klt
-rw-r--r--  1 root     116 Jan  7 16:15 message-text
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root      15 Jan  7 16:15 message -> message-graphic
-rw-r--r--  1 root     512 Jan  7 16:15 boot.0300
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root      23 Jan  7 23:44 System.map -> System.map-2.6.12-12mdk
-rw-r--r--  1 root     695 Jan  7 23:44 kernel.h-2.6.12-12mdk
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root      20 Jan  8 00:54 win4lin -> win4lin-2.6.12-12mdk
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root      31 Jan  8 00:54 initrd-win4lin.img ->
initrd-win4lin-2.6.12-12mdk.img
-rw-------  1 root  131072 Jan  8 00:54 initrd-win4lin-2.6.12-12mdk.img
-rw-------  1 root  349184 Jan  8 00:54 map
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root      19 May 11 11:49 config -> config-2.6.12-12mdk
lrwxrwxrwx  1 root      27 May 11 11:49 kernel.h -> /boot/kernel.h-2.6.12-12mdk

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