Chavdar Videff wrote: > > -------- Original Message -------- > Subject: Re: [expert] running 2 linuxes on a single machine > Date: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 16:56:35 +0300 > From: Chavdar Videff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > On Mon, 3 Jun 2002, Chavdar Videff wrote: > > > >> Hi > >> I tried and installed two different distributions of linux on the > >> same > >> machine in order to compare them, etc. > >> > > I put together a few notes at: > > http://www.digitalhermit.com/linux/dualboot.html > > > >> The first one was a Mandrake 8.1 and I use its lilo to boot all > >> other > >> OS. Everything was OK and worked smoothly. > >> However, I installed a SuSE 7.0 and during the installation > >> process > >> everything worked fine. > >> When I rebooted, the SuSE started to behave strangely. Modprobe > >> could > >> not find the eth0 for instance. I was not able to mount vfat > >> partitions. > >> I could not even makeconfig in order to recompile the kernel (I > >> thought > >> something got wrong with the NIC driver). > >> > > How are your partitions laid out? Which ones are shared between the > > two > > installations? You need to keep /usr, /etc, /var, /bin, and /sbin > > separate. The easiest way is to create two / partitions, one for > > each > > OS, and share only /home and swap. For /home directories it's > > probably > > best to use different users to avoid settings conflicts. > > > > Th > > > The hard disk is 20GB > > /dev/hda1 is for win98 - 3 GB > /dev/hda3 is the second physically and there is the Mandrake 8.1 - > Imade it active and the lilo is installed there - I have left the mBR > untouched so that windows crashes as it pleases > /dev/hda2 is the extended where I have a second vfat partition, four > swap partitions and /dev/hda6 is the partition where I installed the > suse > it looks as if the first /swap partitioin was the only shared resource > the suse is invoked by the lilo of the mandrake - it is configured to > look for /boot/vmlinuz on /dev/hda6 > > > > >> This was at work. > >> > >> Is it the LILO that messes up things? > >> > > Possible -- depending on how you have the images set up. Have you > > tried > > re-running lilo after you install? > > > What do you mean?
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