Dex,
Its just a guess, but ill assume each system wants to use thier own kernel...
so you will need 3 different kernels in you boot dir (vmlinux.man8,
vmlinuz.deb, vmlinuz.blah) reference the in your lilo.
You will also want to edit your /etc/fstab to reflect the proper mount points
for each system (and swap file) since they likely have changed (well..
atleast on 2 of the systems). (note you need to change your fstab in each
system.
All of this can/should be done in the system that boots fine (you can mount
all 3 partitions at one time... edit each fstab.... unmount, boot each and
test. If your using different file system types (such as ext3, ext2, ...)
then each kernel will need to be able to deal with all the filesystem types
or you will have trouble mounting them.
Jamie
On Sunday 08 December 2002 11:18 am, Dexter Graphic wrote:
: I'm trying to consolidate three different Linux systems I've got going
: (Debian 3.0, Mandrake 8.2, and RedHat 8.0) so they will all boot from
: the same harddrive using Lilo to pick which one.
:
: Previously each distributions was on its own hard disk (which I swapped
: out when I wanted to switch distros) so they all know the same hardware.
:
: I'm started with the Mandrake drive (because it was the biggest) and
: copied Debian onto it in a new partition. I used "cp -a <debian /> <new
: partition>". It appears that everything was copied successfully; it all
: appears to be there.
:
: Next I configured Lilo to include the new boot option. Here is my
: lilo.conf file:
:
:
: boot=/dev/hda # Where to install the Lilo bootloader.
: map=/boot/map # I'm not sure what this does???
: # Where to copy the Lilo boot record from.
: install=/boot/boot.b # From Mandrake 8.2
: # install=/boot/boot-menu.b # From Debian 3.0
: vga=0x0f06
: default=Mandrake
: keytable=/boot/us.klt
: lba32 # Use Logical Block Addressing to talk to BIOS.
: prompt
: nowarn
: timeout=100 # Wait for response (in tenths of a second).
: menu-title=" Dexter's Computer Startup "
: # text:highlight:border:title
: menu-scheme=wk:Wk:wk:Wk
: other=/dev/fd0
: label=floppy
: unsafe
: image=/boot/vmlinuz
: label=Mandrake
: root=/dev/hda1
: initrd=/boot/initrd.img
: append="devfs=mount hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"
: read-only
: image=/boot/vmlinuz
: label=failsafe
: root=/dev/hda1
: initrd=/boot/initrd.img
: append="failsafe devfs=nomount hdd=ide-scsi"
: read-only
: image=/boot/vmlinuz # Actually /vmlinux but I made a symlink.
: label=Debian
: root=/dev/hda7
: append="hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi"
: read-only
:
: The above lilo configuration works fine for booting into Mandrake, but
: when I try to boot into Debian it gets really ugly. From what I can tell
: by reading between the error messages, it's booting the Mandrake kernel
: not the Debian version. The last message before it gives up is about the
: swap file. But then it allows me login at a console, and when I poke
: around I can see that /dev/hda7 is indeed mounted at / and all the
: Debian files are accessible.
:
: So my questions are:
: 1.) Is what I am trying to do possible?
: 2.) What do I have to do get lilo to load the right kernel image?
: 3.) What is the map file reference for and do I need to worry about it?
:
: Dexter
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