[olug] multiple OS's On 2 disks

[Chad S. Lauritsen]

it just occurred to me that if you're booted into suse, you probably
won't have the redhat root mounted anywhere if your fs, and vice versa.
this would prevent lilo from being able to install both kernels and make
them available for booting. 

you may need to temporarily mount the the other distro's root directory,
then edit lilo.conf appropriately before running lilo

say you're in redhat where root is /dev/hda6
you will need to say

mkdir /mnt/suse
mount /dev/hda8 /mnt/suse

[then edit lilo.conf]
 label=suse 
 root=/dev/hda8
 image=/mnt/suse/boot/name-of-kernel-image

 label=redhat
 root=/dev/hda6
 image=/boot/name-of-kernel-image
[end of lilo.conf editing]

lilo

you'll have to make any appropriate changes to make it really work. good
luck.


"Chad S. Lauritsen" wrote:
> 
> if you have the appropriate root=/dev/hdxx for rh and suse, do you also
> have appropriate image=/boot/name-of-kernel-image for each distribution.
> I don't know if they would necessarily be different, but I would guess
> there's a good chance they are. Make sure you know what the image
> filename is for each before you re-run lilo.
> 
> not me wrote:
> >
> > I have a 4 gig with win 98 on it (hda) and another 30 gig drive with
> > redhat 7 and suse on it and i want to put more on it but i cannot get
> > lilo to boot 3 OS'S.  I can get it to boot windows and redhat or windows
> > and suse .  but i cannot get it to boot all 3 .... Of course i'm not
> > trying to get them booted at the same time .  What I want is to have
> > them all available to me ........ Is there a way to do this?
> > Yesterday when i hit the tab key I had all 3 but only 2 would boot ...
> > so I checked the lilo.conf file and found that the one that was supposed
> > to boot redhat was also pointing to the partition that suse was on so i
> > changed the hda8 to hda6 where redhat is and it still would not boot
> > .....
> > any ideas?
> > Nate
> >
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