Femme wrote on Thu, Jul 11, 2002 at 12:57:08AM -0600 : > > 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.
I think that's where you ended up doing the damage. Install the second
lilo in the first partition of the second installation. Example:
Partition Mount Function
MBR NA LILO, master config in /etc/lilo.conf in First OS
hda5 /boot First OS kernel images
hda6 swap Swap, used by both OS's
hda7 / First OS root partition
hda8 /home First OS home partition
hda9 /boot Second OS kernel images (second LILO installed here)
hda10 / Second OS root partition
hda11 /home Second OS home partition
You will have to add an entry in the first lilo.conf that points to the
second OS instance. To do that, lilo.conf would have something similar
to the following:
other=/dev/hda9
label=secondlinux
When you actually select that from lilo, it will start the "second" lilo
that's installed in the boot sector of partition hda9.
Can you do it from where you are currently? Almost certainly. We need
to see the /etc/fstab and /etc/lilo.conf from each of the installed
instances.
Blue skies... Todd
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Todd Lyons -- MandrakeSoft, Inc. http://www.mandrakesoft.com/
UNIX was not designed to stop you from doing stupid things, because
that would also stop you from doing clever things. -- Doug Gwyn
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