Re: lilo and 2 diff distribs

[messmate <messmate@free.fr>]

Thanks Elimar,
but is the /boot partition the same for debian as for redhat 
in your case ?? ( -> /boot/Debian and /boot/RedHat )
Mine is not and can't.
Thanks for your advice.
mess-mate

On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 18:49:09 +0200
Elimar Riesebieter <riesebie@lxtec.de> wrote:

| On Sun, 22 Sep 2002 the mental interface of 
| messmate told:
| 
| > Hello all,
| > I readed some doc about to setup lilo but didn't find 
| > anything to boot 2 different linux distributions from the MBR as for 
| > exemple a redhat and a debian distrib.
| > So how can I do that ?
| 
| i.e 
| 
| ##########################/etc/lilo.conf###########################
| 
| #LILO global section
| boot=/dev/hda              #mbr of first ide-device
| compact
| #lba32
| install = /boot/boot.b
| map = /boot/map
| timeout = 100
| prompt
| 
| # End LILO global section
| #
| image = /boot/Debian/vmlinuz-2.4.19 # Whereever the db kernel is
|   root = /dev/hda6            #The Partition where your deb root is
|   label = DEBIAN-2.4.19
|   read-only
|   initrd = /boot/initrd.img-2.4.19  # Only if needed!
|   vga = 791                         # Did you compiled framebuffer
|                                     # support in your kernel?
| #
| image = /boot/ReadHat/vmlinuz-2.4.18   # Whereever the RH-kernel is
|   root = /dev/hda1            #The partition where your RH-root is
|   label = RH-2.4.18
|   read-only
|   vga = normal                # Without framebuffer at vt
| 
| ##########################/etc/lilo.conf###########################
| 
| Try also man lilo.conf. You can also try grub as your bootmanager!
| 
| HTH
| 
| Elimar
| 
| 
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