Pawan ,
It is possible.All you have to do is :
1) Note the partitions of your machine using fdisk -l /dev/hd<a>
(In my case , and in most cases , Hard disk is the primary master
so most of us would give fdisk -l /dev/hda )
2)You should also know on which partitions the 2 kernels (I mean of the
two different linuxes you use) sit.
The output of fdisk -l /dev/hda on my box looks like :
Poornashree:~# fdisk -l /dev/hda
Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1027 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 1 257 2064321 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2 258 1027 6185025 f Win95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/hda5 258 450 1550241 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda6 451 835 3092481 b Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda7 836 842 56196 83 Linux
/dev/hda8 843 990 1188778+ 83 Linux
/dev/hda9 991 1011 168651 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda10 1012 1027 128488+ c Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
and I know that on /dev/hda8 I can find the vmlinuz file , that
Debian Linux should look for .
I once had Red Hat Linux 7.1 on /dev/hda10 and then Slackware on
the same partition.
Simply know for yourself , which of these many partitions contain
the respective kernels (vmlinuz in either case).
As I was quoting from the Linux box I use / mis-use at home ,
/dev/hda8 contained the vmlinuz (kernel) , that I wanted
debian to look at , and /dev/hda10 had the vmlinuz(kernel)
that I wanted RedHat to look at.
So the following might look like :
boot=/dev/hda
message=/boot/bootmess.txt
default=Windows
root=/dev/hda8
image=/vmlinuz
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
other=/dev/hda1
label=Windows
other=/dev/hda10
label=RedThopi
other=/dev/hda7
label=Slack
Please do wait till somebody corrects anything that I might have
accidently omitted or mentioned wrongly.
Best Wishes & Welcome to the Linux community,
Shyam
As on Mon, Feb 11, 2002 at 07:56:14AM +0530 , Pawan Dev said :
> Is it possible to install two different varient of Linux in same machine and
> configuring LILO to boot both of them. I know this is weird question, but I
> am asking only for experiment only. Suppose I want to install both RH Linux
> and Mandrake Linux in one computer. With the lilo of anyone of them, how can
> the lilo find the image of another partition? like
> image =/boot/vmlinuz
> I think Loadlin can be one solution, but while booting from dos mode through
> loadlin, many problems arised.
> Can anybody suggest me, can gerub or lilo be used in such case?
>
> - Pawan Dev.
>
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