Re: Booting 2 Linuxes with LILO
On Wed, Dec 04, 2002 at 11:06:49AM -0800, alberto wrote:
>
> Thanks so much.
> I have a couple of questions:
>
> Can I follow a similar procedure while I have the root mounted?
>
> I booted into woody and had /dev/hda1 mounted as root
> I then mounted potato on /mnt/potato, as you suggest.
> woody: $ lilo -C /mnt/woody/lilo.conf.mbr
> went OK
>
> woody: $ lilo -r /mnt/potato
> told me it was expecting a different version of LILO
>
> woody: $ lilo
> issued a fatal error.
> Then I tried mounting /dev/hda1 under /mnt/woody and did:
> woody: $ lilo -r /mnt/woody
> It was OK.
>
> Still, I can boot Potato, despite the error message.
> It won't bood woody, though!
>
> Could I maybe just have the woody's lilo.conf handle all, without the need of
> the mbr lilo?
You should be able to
chroot /mnt/potato
/sbin/lilo
That should take care of the version differences.
That said, I would also recommend running grub rather than lilo, since it
gives you much more flexibility, including editing the command line at
boot time.
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