On Tuesday 29 July 2003 07:32 pm, John Richard Smith wrote: > Dennis Myers wrote: > >On Tuesday 29 July 2003 02:57 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > >>On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 5:29 am, Dennis Myers wrote: > >>>On Monday 28 July 2003 10:46 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > >>>>On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 13:24, Dennis Myers wrote: > >>>>>Has anyone installed two MLinux on two seperate HDs on the same > >>>>>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. > >>>> > >>>>It would truly be a matter of properly writting out the > >>>>/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. > >>> > >>>Thanks Stephen, that is essentially what I am trying to do, just > >>>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 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? > > 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. > 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 I don't have a problem understanding the above but whenever I try to add the second to the first or vice versa I get "/sbin/lilo Fatal: Open /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.21-xxxmdk; no such file or directory. either way I go it is the same. I remember this problem in the past, it seems unable to see the correct image. ???? Any help? -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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