Re: Installing 2nd bootable debian
On Wed, Feb 14, 2001 at 14:31, hanasaki wrote:
> I have a HD with
>
> /boot
> / => a complete install of debian
>
> I wish to install a second debian on another partion(s).
>
> How do i do this so that lilo.conf refects both debians? Wont the 2nd
> install make its own /etc/lilo.conf and thus make a lilo boot prompt
> only for the 2nd install?
Here is a very crude response (but it's from a working system).
Basically, I make a subdirectory under /boot for every Debian system
(probably Linux system) I want to boot. All these systems share /boot.
In every system /etc/lilo.conf is a symlink to /boot/lilo/lilo.conf.
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 20 Dec 9 08:36 /etc/lilo.conf -> /boot/lilo/lilo.conf
/boot:
total 68
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 515 Dec 10 10:28 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Dec 2 19:14 boot.0300
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 13 Dec 10 08:16 boot.b -> potato/boot.b
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Dec 10 08:16 chain.b -> potato/chain.b
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 1024 Jan 20 13:20 lilo
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 12288 Dec 9 10:21 lost+found
-rw------- 1 root root 49664 Jan 20 13:20 map
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 12 Dec 10 08:16 mbr.b -> potato/mbr.b
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 14 Dec 10 08:16 os2_d.b -> potato/os2_d.b
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jan 20 13:18 potato
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Dec 10 08:13 rescue
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Nov 24 09:23 rescue.OLD
/boot/lilo:
total 7
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 1024 Jan 20 13:20 RCS
-rw-r----- 1 root root 5226 Jan 20 13:20 lilo.conf
/boot/lilo/RCS:
total 8
-r--r----- 1 root root 7314 Jan 20 13:20 lilo.conf,v
/boot/lost+found:
total 0
/boot/potato:
total 1984
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 170238 Jan 20 13:10 System.map-2.2.17
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 265635 Sep 17 10:11 System.map-2.2.17-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4568 Sep 25 19:20 boot.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 612 Sep 25 19:20 chain.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10452 Jan 20 13:02 config-2.2.17
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12648 Sep 17 10:11 config-2.2.17-old
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Sep 25 19:20 mbr.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 640 Sep 25 19:20 os2_d.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 506758 Jan 20 13:10 vmlinuz-2.2.17
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 1042807 Sep 17 10:11 vmlinuz-2.2.17-old
/boot/rescue:
total 1308
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 149 Dec 10 08:13 README
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 265635 Dec 9 10:48 System.map-2.2.17
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4568 Dec 9 10:59 boot.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 612 Dec 9 10:59 chain.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 12648 Dec 9 10:48 config-2.2.17
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Dec 9 10:59 mbr.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 640 Dec 9 10:59 os2_d.b
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1042807 Dec 9 10:48 vmlinuz-2.2.17
/boot/rescue.OLD:
total 2026
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 161419 Jul 5 2000 System.map-2.2.17
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 327163 Jul 1 2000 System.map-2.2.17-compact
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Jul 1 2000 boot.0300
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4568 Jul 1 2000 boot.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 612 Jul 1 2000 chain.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 10710 Jul 5 2000 config-2.2.17
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4915 Jul 1 2000 config-2.2.17-compact
-rw------- 1 root root 37888 Oct 31 07:20 map
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 512 Jul 1 2000 mbr.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 640 Jul 1 2000 os2_d.b
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 494666 Jul 5 2000 vmlinuz-2.2.17
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 1012567 Jul 1 2000 vmlinuz-2.2.17-compact
Luck,
Pann
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