Wobo, A dirty method for getting multi-boot to work. (I've got QA boxes running up to 9 different versions of Linux so this had to be done quite often some of them (SuSe!) don't play nice.)
I go through the install and let lilo do it's thing normally. Yes this does result in only being able to boot into the new version but there comes a fix on this. One thing I don't do is create a seperate /boot partition. (So I don't waste partitions with 9 OS's on a box it can get tight.) Then boot into the rescue disk for my main version. Mount the OS (it always gets the right version of MDK btw) and cd into /mnt/boot. Mount the / partion of the second OS in /mnt/mnt/disk (or some other point) mkdir mdk9.1 and cp -a all of the /boot directory from the 9.1 install into this directory. cd ../etc and edit lilo.conf to reflect the boot and root param's for the new OS. chroot /mnt lilo to set my mbr. reboot the box and I can now boot to either version. The one thing to remember is that on the new one everything will be /boot/mdk9.1/xxxfile instead of /boot/xxxfile in the new OS. James On Wed, 2003-01-29 at 11:51, Wolfgang Bornath wrote: > Hi, > > after having started one of the longest running OT thread of this list > (by numbers of postings) I'd like to turn to a not so important but > more OnTopic issue - my unability to install 9.1Beta2. > > Downloaded both ISOs, checked the md5sums, burned the CDs, again > checked the md5sums, done. > > Booted, pressed F1 and at the prompt chose 'expert'. > > Installer went without fault (except no way to get my mouse wheel > going) to the package selection. To get to the Individual Package > Selection I had to unmark and mark again the radio button for this > feature. > > Bad surprise: As in Beta1 the blue field on the screen was not large > enough to show the buttons to commence after selection. I tried > several times to get to the button by pressing TAB. All I got was a > freeze where the reset button was the only way out. BTW: the popup to > show dependencies during selection was not showing but the text was > (unreadable) squashed somewhere at the top of the blue field. > > Next attempt I skipped the individual package selection to get at > least something installed. I chose Office Workstation, Internet > Client, Development, Graphical Workstation (unmarking Gnome because I > wanted only KDE). Installation started and - in between changed to > disc #2 - went to the end without error. > > Then it started post-installation configuration and asked for Disc #1. > I inserted it, waited a moment to let the disc be read in then hit OK. > The installer searched the disc, ejected it and asked for Disc #1. I > did that several times, even changing to Disc 2 in case it really > meant #2 instead of #1. No go. I had to hit Cancel. Then I got the > listing of devices and realized there was no network installed. I > clicked on that and did the network configuration. That was ok. > Then I hit the bar with the X configuration. It asked for my monitor > (1280x1024 generic flatscreen) and claimed I had a GeForce2 card. I > changed that to Generic GeForce4 and marked XFree 4.x.x. The installer > showed an error and claimed that some files in /mnt/usr/... were > missing. Only part of this message were on the blue square in the > middle of the screen. > > I commenced without X and that was it. No option to create a bootdisk. > I forgot: there was an option to install LILO but I passed it because > it did not give me the option to have it on a bootdisk. > > That's all. No way. I tried text install but there I did not get the > expert option. everything else (asking but not accepting CD1, no > bootdisk) was like in graphic install. > > I have been at it now for 2 hours, no way to get it installed. I mean, > it is installed but I can't get to it because I don't get the option > to start via LILO on a bootdisk and I don't get the option to create > a bootdisk and I don't want LILO to be in the MBR, thus blocking me > out of my working installation of Mandrake 9.0. I tried the often used > approach of putting LILO in the root partition of 9.1Beta2 and put the > proper entry into my main lilo.conf in MDK 9.0 but lilo of 9.0 did not > accept the entry. > > Maybe Beta versions are not for me... > > wobo
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