Re: Dual booting 64-bit and 32-bit kernels
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Greetings all, I guess I should chime in on this thread. I have an HP
Pavilion zv6000 (zv6201cl) laptop. It has a 60 GB hard disk which had
only Windows XP Home Edition on in a 20 GB partition.
At the time I purchased it, I decided to dual boot Debian and Windows.
Yes, I have that one Windows application that I just can't part with
(Bagpipe Player). Then, at the regular Friday night AKLUG Laboratory
Session, someone suggested I load Fedora Core 4 (I think) to see how it
worked. The reason was I couldn't get Sarge (64) to install.
So, for a time, I had a) WXPhe on hda1 (32 bit I think - how can I
tell?), b) Debian Sarge (broken) on hda2, and FC4-64 on hda3. I set up a
VFAT32 partition (hda5) so I could share files between WXP and whatever
Linux I happened to be using. I also set up a separate /home partition
(hda6) with the idea that I could mount it on /home in whatever Linux I
happened to be running. (I of course had a swap partition, hda7, too).
The FC4-64 installation did have the proprietary ATI drivers, but I
couldn't get the wireless to work. Also, Red Hat puts things in strange
places, and they have a very different way of going about configuring
things as compared to Debian. So, I decided to try SimplyMEPIS (a 32 bit
distribution based on Debian).
Thus, my present situation includes the ability to boot into either a 64
or 32 bit Debian system using grub on the mbr. I also can boot into WXP.
Cheerio! fgd.
Sven Krahn wrote:
> On 5/23/06, *A J Stiles* <deb64@earthshod.co.uk
> <mailto:deb64@earthshod.co.uk>> wrote:
>
> If I partition my drive appropriately, can I use LILO to dual-boot a
> 32-bit
> kernel and a 64-bit kernel with {at least} a shared /home and swap
> space,
> but separate / partitions?
>
>
> I use such configuration with GRUB but I don't see any reason why this
> shouldn't work with LILO as well.
>
> I can boot into either the 64- or the 32-bit system, additionally I have
> configured my chroot (in the 64-bit environment) to point into the same
> 32-bit partition as well. For me this is the ideal setup allowing me to
> work in 64-bit by default, have the few 32-bit applications (OpenOffice,
> Firefox Flash plugin etc.) chrooted, but still having a fully functional
> 32-bit installation in the backhand.
>
> However, I would be very much interested whether it is possible to share
> other partitions between the installations as well (/etc in
> particular)... any experiences?
>
> --
> Best regards / Mit den besten Grüssen
> Sven Krahn
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