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How2 GRUBboot Slak13's lilo-booted partition?

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Subject: How2 GRUBboot Slak13's lilo-booted partition?
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2021 10:05:42 +0000 (UTC)
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by: diojso@gmail.com - Tue, 1 Jun 2021 10:05 UTC

I had a standard slackware-13 installation running on a PC.
Now I'm forced to use a laptop. ShitHole location: needs mobility.
Via a USBhub, with a USBdisk, which `lsblk` shows as : ...
sdc 8:32 0 465.8G 0 disk
sdc1 8:33 0 690.3M 0 part /media/Tosh1Ext4
sdc2 8:34 0 2.1G 0 part /media/Reisr2ext4
sdc3 8:35 0 3.1G 0 part /media/Toshi3
sdc4 8:36 0 459.9G 0 part /media/Tosh4Slak13_
I can `chroot /media/Tosh4Slak13_` to the good-old-stuff
that's been copied from the original PC's disk.
But obviously I'd like to be able to DIRECTLY-RUN the partition:
Tosh4Slak13_, which looks like this:- ...
# ls /media/Tosh4Slak13_/boot/ | wc -l =19 and some are:--...
README.initrd
System.map-huge-2.6.29.6
System.map-huge-smp-2.6.29.6-smp
boot_message.txt
config
config-huge-2.6.29.6
config-huge-smp-2.6.29.6-smp
diag1.img
slack.bmp
vmlinuz
vmlinuz-huge-2.6.29.6
vmlinuz-huge-smp-2.6.29.6-smp ...
----When I select the <Tosh4Slak13_> from the UEFIbootMenu,
slackware-13's lilo starts <tracing> but fails to install.
It ends with: "(initramfs)"
AFAIR the setup for the lilo was the STANDARD for those-days,
eg. huge & no initram.
How would I make a GRUB boot-entry in the Debian7's USBstik,
[that's now running] to boot Slak13 ?
--- TIA.
PS. Let's see what GRUBshell sees in /dev/sdc4 ?
That must be where the lilo-settings are ?
ReStart > F7 > grub e > ls <Tab> ...
Or NO! How did lilo work? Probably showed a menu, and I
SELECTED <huge ...etc> ?

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by: Pascal Hambourg - Wed, 2 Jun 2021 11:40 UTC

Le 01/06/2021 à 12:05, diojso@gmail.com a écrit :
> ----When I select the <Tosh4Slak13_> from the UEFIbootMenu,
> slackware-13's lilo starts <tracing> but fails to install.
> It ends with: "(initramfs)"

What do you mean by "select from the EFIbootMenu" ?
Do you really have a UEFI boot entry labelled "Tosh4Slak13_" ?
AFAIK, LILO is not compatible with EFI boot. Do you mean eLILO ?
What do you mean by "<tracing>" ?
What do you mean by "fails to install" ?
What is displayed before "(initramfs)" ?

> AFAIR the setup for the lilo was the STANDARD for those-days,
> eg. huge & no initram.

So I guess the root= parameter points to the original /dev/sd* root
device. Can you see LILO's menu ?

> PS. Let's see what GRUBshell sees in /dev/sdc4 ?
> That must be where the lilo-settings are ?
> ReStart > F7 > grub e > ls <Tab> ...

What does that show ?

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Subject	Author
How2 GRUBboot Slak13's lilo-booted partition?	diojso
Re: How2 GRUBboot Slak13's lilo-booted partition?	Pascal Hambourg