Re: Can Separate Partitions Interfere?

["T.M. Tran" <trach-minh.tran@epfl.ch>]

Ethan Benson wrote:
> 
........
> /etc/lilo.conf (one of them anyway) should be like this:
> 
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> vga=normal
> compact
> prompt
> timeout=30
> default=linux
> 
> image=/vmlinuz
>         label=debian
>         alias=linux
>         read-only
>         root=/dev/hda1
>         ## this is your debian installation, you would need to have
>         ## booted debian for this config file to work.
> 
> image=/mandrake/boot/vmlinuz
>         label=mandrake
>         read-only
>         root=/dev/hda2
>         ## this is for mandrake, you must have /dev/hda2 mounted on
>         ## /mandrake in debian
> 
> image=/coral/boot/vmlinuz
>         label=coral
>         read-only
>         root=/dev/hda3
>         ## see mandrake.
> 

Hello,

Would it be possible to replace in the lilo.conf above:
1) /dev/hda2 by /dev/hdb1 and
2) /dev/hda3 by /dev/hdb2,
because I plan to install the 2 others distribitions on a 
second disk?
The first 2 partitions of /dev/hdb are of course below the 1024 
cylinders limit?

T.M. Tran