On Saturday 14 February 2004 11:20 am, Trey Sizemore wrote:
> So I guess I still don't understand:
> 1) Will Mandrake offer the ability to resize my ReiserFS SUSE
> partition?
I do not know the answer to this question. I have never tried to resize a
reiserFS partition.
> 2) Will Mandrake share utilize the existing SWAP partition already
> setup for SUSE?
Yes
> 3) What should I choose at the bootloader step to get Mandrake to
> appear as an option in my current bootloader menu?
>
There are two ways to do this, the first is to let Mandrake install it's
standard LILO to the root partition of the mandrake install and not the mbr,
then chainload it from your grub menu as you would windows. The second
method would be to not install a Mandrake bootloader at all (I suppose you
could still install to root partition) and then boot directly from the Suse
menu.lst
If you want to chainload, install Mandrake and then boot into SUSE and add the
following stanza to your menu.lst
title Mandrake
root (hd0,7)
chainloader +1
If you want to boot Mandrake directly from SUSE, the menu.lst stanza should
look something like this:
title Mandrake
kernel (hd0,7)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda8 vga=788 splash=silent \
hdd=ide-scsi
initrd (hd0,7)/boot/initrd
> Thanks again for your patience and replies!
Either way, do not let bootloader install to mbr when you install Mandrake.
This will cause you not to be able to boot back into SUSE, as Mandrake will
set up Windows but not SUSE as a bootloader entry. If you let Mandrake
install bootloader to mbr because you want to let Mandrake boot SUSE, you
have to add an entry for SUSE into the Mandrake menu.lst after installing
Mandrake. In this case, you would install Mandrake's bootloader to the mbr.
This IMO is more risky because you already have grub working correctly in
SUSE. Also, keep in mind that the Mandrake default bootloader is LILO, so if
you want to use grub in Mandrake, you would have to make sure that you
explicitly select it for configuration at the installation summary screen.
Bootom line is that one of your Linux distros is going to have to control the
boot process and it is probably easier to select SUSE for this.
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