Re: LILO -- how to get it to boot another distro on another disk?

[Tom <tom@abwaerts.be>]

* [Tue 13 April 2004 15:47] "Monique Y. Mudama" <spam@bounceswoosh.org>:

> > I can imagine that the stock Fedora kernel contains lots of drivers
> > I don't need, but how, then, do I go about booting it? The LILO
> > manual tells me te recompile and get rid of unneeded drivers, but
> > if I can't boot into Fedora, how can I recompile a kernel for it to
> > use?
>
> Couldn't you d/l the redhat kernel source (if you want to use the
> redhat specific stuff), compile it on debian, then just mount the
> redhat drive in debian and copy the kernel over?

Hm. Why is it always other people that can think of elegant solutions?

I'll give it a go. I guess it should work...

Thanks!
Tom

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