also don't forget to run "lilo" after you make your changes to
/etc/lilo.conf, so they can be written to the boot block of the hdd.
otherwise your changes wont take effect.. it took me a few hours to work
that one out ;-)

Otako wrote:
> On 2004-10-04, Gwar wrote:
>
>>I've just installed Slack 10 on a dual boot set-up, & when I uname on the
>>new install drive, it says 2.4.20 instead of 2.4.26. The kernel there is
>>2.4.26. The new install drive is an ide drive & the other drive is a scsi.
>>
>
>
> It looks like you are booting the image 2.4.20 of the first install on the
> scsi drive instead on 2.4.26 on the new ide install. In lilo image paths
> have to be given relative to the partition that lilo is run from.
>
> Try booting back into the first scsi install and mount the ide
> partition in the /mnt directory, then edit /etc/lilo.conf "image"
> path so that it points to the mounted ide image and rerun lilo.
>
> Any editor can edit /etc/lilo.conf just make sure you are "root".
>
> eg image = /mnt/a2/boot/vmlinuz
> root = /dev/hda2
> label = slak10
> read-only
>
>
> sorry don't know about grub as I don't use it.
>
> cheers,
> keith.