Re: How many Linux is enough for lilo!?
On Wed, May 09, 2001 at 07:28:06PM +0100, Viktor Lakics wrote:
> I run into a prob with lilo. I want to have two Linuxes on the same
> hard drive (root partitions /hda8 and /hda9 respectively) and have
> lilo on the MBR.
>
> Whatever I do, lilo can only recognize the kernel from one root
> partition. I can have several kernels bootable by lilo, as long as
> the reside on the same root or boot (if you have a separate /boot
> partition) partition.
>
I have 4 Linux installed and bootable on one machine. RH7, Unstable,
testing, Vine(Japanese variant of RH6) One of root in /dev/hda12 and
its lilo on /dev/hda4. This could boot /dev/hda3 as root too.
I remember when # of entry hit 19 or something lilo had troble (speaking
for potato lilo with lba32 support)
I am sure MBR installed Lilo can do same but I usually install debian
mbr into MBR and use lilo in /dev/hda{1,2,3,4}. This is for redundancy.
Each lilo can boot any partition.
One reminder.
Put
root=/dev/hda8
or
root=/dev/hda9
for each Linux bootable root partition
"other" can be used to start other lilo on /dev/hda{1,2,3,4}
... :-)
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