Re: partitions
On Sun, 04 May 2003 09:44:20 -0600
"Gezim H" <gezimh@hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Right now my partitions are a big mess!
> hda1 is winME
> hda2 is swap
> hda3 is suse
> hda4 is debian
> Thus, I can't boot into suse because my lilo runs from
> debian, and I can only boot to winME or debian.
> My computer is only about a year old, and I want to
> know can my /boot partition be in hda2? Does it have
> to be within the first 1024 cylinders? And can my
> /home partiton by logican partition?
If you intend to change your partitions anyway, go for it. But if you're
doing it because you don't believe you can boot all three OSs, there's no
reason to change.
If you're wedded to lilo and you want to use the one that's installed in
Debian, boot Debian. Mount /dev/hda3 somewhere in Debian -- it doesn't
really matter where, /mnt will do just fine. Just make sure you can find the
kernel in the SuSE system.
Now edit /etc/lilo and create a stanza for SuSE. Specify the kernel at
/mnt/<wherever>.
Run /sbin/lilo. You should now be able to boot the SuSE system.
A better solution IMO is to install grub and use it. apt-get install grub,
then do "grub-install /dev/hda". Then do "update-grub" to create a grub boot
menu. Read the comments in /boot/grub/menu.lst and change the groot and kopt
values appropriately. After the automagic section, add stanzas for SuSE and
WinME.
Here is a great article on using grub, including how to make a single floppy
disk that can boot any Windows system, most Linux systems, and BSD or OS/2
besides:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=4622
Kevin
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