On Tuesday 29 July 2003 02:57 am, Anne Wilson wrote:I must say I don't actually have one /home partition, I just let each OS have a /home directory as part of / base , so my experience is not the same as yours, but having said that, I cannot see why you need two /home partitions anyway.
On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 5:29 am, Dennis Myers wrote:I tried that a while back and ran into a problem with the kernel image not being on hda, caused a kernel panic for the second OS boot. I am not having much luck here, if I format both disks when installing the first OS it won't let me name the 2nd harddrive other than /tmp or /var/www etc. So I know this can be done and civileme tried to explain how to do it using a /obj partition, but I must be to dense to figure that one out. I can not name two / partitions or two /home etc without getting a conflict. So anyone see how my head is screwed on backwards?
On Monday 28 July 2003 10:46 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote:
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 13:24, Dennis Myers wrote:Thanks Stephen, that is essentially what I am trying to do, just
Has anyone installed two MLinux on two seperate HDs on the sameIt would truly be a matter of properly writting out the
comp and figured out how to get lilo to read them both at boot?
I am trying to do it so that I can beta test and yet run the
regular system when I am not running tests. Any hints or manual
suggestions are appreciated, I have not found anything to help.
/etc/lilo.conf of the first installation; the first installation
would write the lilo to the MBR of the first HD; then after
you've done all that wonderful jazz and gotten your primary
installation up and running, do a second installation on the
"second" drive, but choose to NOT write lilo; then make note of
the boot partition for the second installation and whatnot, and
then write that into the /etc/lilo.conf on the first drive.
not getting it right. I will try a clean install of the beta and
not write lilo I think this is where I screwed up. Thanks again,
Just wondering - if you installed to the second drive without the first attached and let it write its lilo, wouldn't that give you the info you need? Then re-attaching the first drive it would boot from the original lilo, Ithink, and you could add the necessary stanza?
Or am I crazy <g>
Anne
I do have a /boot partition which keeps that simple.
I take it you have all your partitioning done with mandrake's diskdrake, so diskdrake ought to just recognise the second drive and designate it hdb, it always has for me.
I then click on the second tab for hdb and begin to partition as required, if this the second OS install , I designate the /base partition , format and proceed to install. You already have a /swap so that's ok,
When your done installing you don't seem to have choice these days and have to install a new lilo which will boot up initially from the last , that is second OS, install's /etc/lilo.conf, when on sesktop make a fresh stanza to boot the first OS and reboot to that OS,where if you prefer to have the bootup done from the first OS /etc/lilo.conf, merely add a new stanza to boot the second OS and run /sbin/lilo to rewrite mbr lilo again. If you don't mind booting from the second OS /etc/lilo.conf then your merely have to add that stanza to boot the first OS. Sounds complicated but isn't.
You must, I think, have the /boot partition on the first hda, I don't think it works putting it on the second hdb . I always put mine in as the frist partition on hda, but I don't think it's imperative anymore.
John
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