Re: Dual boot Linux on one box (about partitions)

[Alvin Oga <aoga@ns.Linux-Consulting.com>]

hi ya

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, rec.sea@btopenworld.com wrote:

> default="Debian"
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> keytable=/boot/it-latin1.klt
> prompt
> nowarn
> timeout=100
> message=/boot/message
> menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
> 
> image=/boot/vmlinuz

remember that this is the debian kernel in /dev/hda4

>         label="Debian"
>         root=/dev/hda4
>         initrd=/boot/initrd.img
>         append="devfs=nomount acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda1 splash=silent"
>         vga=788
>         read-only
> 
> image=/boot/vmlinuz

remember that this is the gentoo kernel in /dev/hda6

since the kernel name is the same .. during booting,
it might get confused debian's  vmlinuz-2.4.28-xxx-yy 
vs gentoo's vmlinuz-2.4.28-www-zzz

use explicit names:  image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.28-www-zzz

>         label="Gentoo"
>         root=/dev/hda6

good ... lets give it a try and see if you get 2 boot options

>         initrd=/boot/initrd.img
>         append="devfs=nomount acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda1 splash=silent"
>         vga=788
>         read-only
> 
> What do you think? I am not too sure about the line map=/boot/map.

leave it alone
	- it's just like the boot=/dev/hda

c ya
alvin