On Thu, Jun 06, 2002 at 10:18 +0300, Chavdar Videff wrote:
> Actually,
> I figured out it is just that: I must have misunderstood the point when
> thinking that LILO boots an OS from the partition mentioned. No one ever
> mentioned that in manuals and how-to's. However, when I copied
> vmlinuz.suse and System.map of suse to the boot partition of the
> mandrake it finally worked.
> I first tried to configure lilo to boot the suse as other OS in order
> not to copy anything as proposed on the mailing list, but it generated a
> mistake in Mandrake Control Center - Boot and lilo did not recognize it.
> I tried to edit the lilo.conf file manually, but the choice "SUSE"
> didn't even appear in the boot menu due to the same mistake in LILO. So
> I gave it up and did the copy.
> Thanks for the help. I knew there is a way to do it nd it is rather
> simple, too, but how would I suppose that the lilo does not grab
> everything from the root partition I configured it.
> Chavdar
There's an other way which I use to keep 2 distros (or a stable working
installation and a test installation of a Beta) apart from each other:
As an exempel:
MDK 8.2 boot partition on hda1 with LILO in the MBR.
Now I install MDK 9.0Beta (not that there is such a beast yet!) on hda7
and during installation I tell it to put LILO in the BR of the hda7
partition.
Then I reboot and get to MDK 8.2. I edit lilo.conf and put MDK9 as other
os into it.
Oh, and for convenience I set the waiting time for the MDK9 LILO to zero.
So you have both Mandrakes apart from each other but you may of course
share any data partitions and the swap partition.
wobo
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