Dear all,
My intention is installing three different OS in a 4.3 SCSI hard disk
drive as follow.
1. /dev/sda1 FreeBSD 3.1-stable
2. /dev/sda2 Debian 2.1 (kernel 2.0.36)
3. /dev/sda3 Slackware 3.6 (kernel 2.0.35)
4. /dev/sda4 Linux swap for two distributions
The current lilo.conf have a problem on booting the last two
Linux distributions. This is the content of the lilo.conf.....
boot=/dev/sda
delay=30
# FreeBSD
other=/dev/sda1
label=freebsd
table=/dev/sda
read-only
# Debian
image=/vmlinuz
root=/dev/sda2
label=debian
read-only
# Slackware
image=/vmlinuz
root=/dev/sda3
label=slack
read-only
This lilo.conf brings a problem of booting the same kernel forever,
although it is configured two root partitions. I run lilo command at
Debian system so that computer loads kernel 2.0.36 (comes with debian)
every time, even if I want to Slackware (which comes with 2.0.35). As
the result, Slackware cannot initize 2.0.35 modules correctly.
My question is how to configure LILO points to different kernels?
In my limit knowledge, I have an idea.............
At first, I install LILO at the superblock of two Linux partitions.
<debian>
boot=/dev/sda2
root=/dev/sda2
image=/vmlinuz
label=debian
read-only
<slackware>
boot=/dev/sda3
root=/dev/sda3
image=/vmlinuz
label=slack
read-only
After then, I install FreeBSD's boot manager in the MBR of this SCSI
hard drive. Thus, there are two LILOes as secondary boot loader and
they point to different distributions with different kernel.
Is this idea correct?
Best Regards,
Hon-Yu Cheung
