Femme wrote: > > As for which installations LILO is in the MBR, I believe the second > ones, the Test OS Install. Its the one I'm learning on/screwing up. > Its the one I installed 2nd, and I (probably stupidly) put the LILO onto > hda in the MBR, thinking I could just point the other installations > files to the right directory & such. > > Silly me! ;P > > thx > Femme >
Here is another way to multi boot. Below is a copy of my lilo.conf (edited) for Mandrake 8.2. boot=/dev/hda <--- Mandrake lilo goes to the MBR map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b default=linux keytable=/boot/us.klt lba32 vga=normal prompt timeout=100 message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw ignore-table image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi" vga=791 read-only other=/dev/hda8 <---- point to Debian just like windows label=Debian Here is my lilo.conf (located in the Debian partition) for Debian (edited). boot=/dev/hda8 <--- NOTE Debian's lilo goes in the Debian partition root=/dev/hda8 install=/boot/boot-menu.b map=/boot/map timeout=50 prompt vga=normal default=Linux image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only vga=5 This way you do not have to copy anything from one linux to the /boot diectory of another linux and you will not run the risk of getting something mixed up. Everthing stays in its own directory. You can have as many Operating Systems as you want. You can do all kinds of crazy things with lilo. Such as linux A points to linux B, which point to linux C which points to linux D & etc. Note: You must change above parameters to match your system. HTH Charles
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