Re: Boot linux from two linux partition

[Brandon Mitchell <bhmit1@mail.wm.edu>]

I saw an answer to this a while back.  I need to do it myself sometime, so
I saved the message:

---------- Forwarded message ----------
Date: Tue, 17 Jun 1997 13:31:06 +0100
From: Nuno Filipe Rocha Candido <nuno@tosca.telepac.pt>
Reply-To: nunofcan@mail.telepac.pt

Some time ago, I had Debian and Slackware (Slack on hda4 and Debian on hdb2).
My approach for dual boot, for example in Debian was:
/etc/lilo.conf:

boot=/dev/hda
compact
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=20
# ZIP drive settings
append = "aha152x=0x140,11,7,1"

# DOS bootable partition
other = /dev/hda1
  label = win95
  table = /dev/hda
# DOS bootable partition config ends

# Linux bootable partition config begins
# Debian latest kernel
image=/vmlinuz
  root=/dev/hdb2
  label = Debian
  read-only
image=/mnt/slack/vmlinuz
  root=/dev/hda4
  label = Slack
  read-only

This means i have slackware mounted in /mnt/slack, and you have to do the same
in slackware.

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HTH,
Brandon

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Brandon Mitchell                         E-mail: bhmit1@mail.wm.edu
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	--Linus Torvalds


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