Tom Bishop wrote:
>
> Interseting problem: two hard drives, hda (primary master) is 10 gig, hdb
> (primary slave) is 4.3 gig. Mandrake 6.0 is on hda by its lonesome, Win89 is
> on 2gig of hdb. Usually I go into the system BIOS and select none for hda,
> reboot and install COL 2.2 on the balance of hdb. I have done the install with
> and without making a seperate swap partition for COL. Everything installs fine
> and all the usual programs work with no problems. The kernel version displayed
> on the control-panel startup is 2.2.5, which it should be. Now, if I shut
> down, reboot, and reselect hda in the BIOS, lilo shows me the correct menu:
> linux dos col and they each individually boot correctly. BUT... now nothing
> works in COL (ie: kppp, cdrom.floppy) and the kernel version displayed is that
> of Mandrake...2.2.9-19mdk. Why does Mandrake contaminate my COL install even
> if it's on a seperate drive? I suspect the swap partition? Is there a way for
> this to not happen? More curious than anything.
> Thanks, Tom
You'll need to install LILO onto /dev/hdb (and probably disable the
prompting and timeout so it's not annoying). Then edit your "main"
/etc/lilo to show something like this:
boot=/dev/hda1
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=main-linux
root=/dev/hdb3
read-only
other=/dev/hdb
label=other-linux
Then you can make independant changes between the two distributions
without affecting the other.
--
Steve Philp
Network Administrator
Advance Packaging Corporation
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