On Thursday 06 Nov 2003 11:48 am, racerpup2 wrote:
> What is the best way to set up a duel boot between two different Linux
> distros? I have Mandrake on hda and suse on hdc.
>
> tia
>
> walt
Assuming you are using Lilo, and Mandrake installed lilo then what you do is
while booted into Mandrake create a mount point (for example /mnt/suse_boot
and mount your Suse /boot partition on it.
Now edit your lilo.conf and add a stanza like this :-
image=/mnt/suse_boot/vmlinuz
label="Suse"
root=/dev/hdc1
initrd=/mnt/suse_boot/initrd.img
append="blah blah"
vga=788
read-only
Now when you run lilo -v Lilo will calculate the cylinder and sector that the
Suse image is located at and will write those values into the bootloader. The
only reason you have to mount the Suse /boot in Mandrake is to allow Lilo to
calculate that sector offset.
Hope that works for you. Its what I do to run Libranet (which by the way is
the easiest way to get into Debian I know of)
I think Grub may be better for doing this sort of thing, but I have never got
around to learning it.
derek
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