Re: Debian Questions - Newbie-ish

["Richard E. Hawkins Esq." <hawk@eyry.econ.iastate.edu>]

>Hmm.  I think bootpart from BSD will do this, and I'm pretty sure LILO
>will.  I've used LILO to dual boot Windows and Linux, and bootpart to
>dual boot DOS and BSD.  I never have done exactly what you want to do

yes, LILO will do this.  My /etc/lilo.conf file boots both, and will 
supposedly boot the most recently booted, though it doesn't seem to be 
doing so at the moment.  But the problem of sharing /home and /usr/src 
with bsd unable to access logical ext2fs partitions, and linux being 
unable to write to ufs partitions, has pretty much stopped my 
experimenting.  Here's the file to do it:


boot=/dev/hda
root=/dev/hda7
# Generated by liloconfig
compact
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
vga=normal
delay=20
image=/vmlinuz
label=Linux
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.1.119-eyry
	label=119
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34
	label=34
image=/vmlinuz
	label = onboot
	root=/dev/hda1
other=/dev/hda2
	label = dos
	table = /dev/hda
other=/dev/hda3
	label = bsd
	table = /dev/hda
lock

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