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Here's a real newbie question but maybe a good answer????
Why not backup your lilo.conf to a diskette and then merge it with the one 10.0 will build. Actually after you boot to 10.0 can't you just mount the old partisions and get access to the old lilo.conf?
Can't you just let 10.0 build LILO to the MBR? When I build 9.2 it found all my bootable devices so I would think that during the the 10.0 install that the process would find window/9.2/10.0 and build the boot record accordingly and even if it didn't you could then just take the conf file you backed up and merge it with the one 10.0 built.
This is totally a guess on my part being a very newbie and not having loaded 10.0 but it seems logical.... I know I shouldn't trust logic but what the he**.
Had I been installing 10.0 this is the choice I would have used.
Steve
Linux user number 344404
-------Original Message-------
Date: 03/14/04 09:05:40
Subject: Re: [newbie] Triple Boot Mandrake
On Sunday 14 March 2004 07:22 am, Philip Cronje wrote:
> On Sunday, 14 March 2004 14:10, Stephen Reynolds wrote:
> > Will the Mandrake 10.0 Community installation process automatically add
> > the second installation of Mandrake to lilo.conf or will it overwrite
> > lilo with Mandrake 10.0 Community.
>
> I'm guessing that it will overwrite. Seems to be the logical thing for it
> to do, considering that you won't be upgrading, but installing. (Your 9.2
> partition won't be mounted, thus it won't know about your /etc/lilo.conf).
>
> But this is just me firing shots in the dark :)
It is quite easy. During installation of 10.0, you will be asked a question
of where to install the bootloader. The choices should be 1) on MBR 2) on /
(root) partition, or 3) do not install.
You want to choose number 2, install to root partition.
You will temporarily not be able to boot into 10.0 until you go back into 9.2
and adjust your lilo there. Make note of the device for the root partition
for 10.0 (something like /dev/hda6) Then when the installation finishes, it
will reboot and you will get your old lilo menu. boot to 9.2 and then edit
your /etc/lilo.conf file. You should see a stanza in there for winxp that
looks like this:
other=/dev/hda1
label="windows"
table=/dev/hda
Add another one for 10.0 that looks like this:
other=/dev/hdax
label="Mandrake10"
table=/dev/hda
replace the /dev/hdax with the actual root partition of your 10.0 install.
now run lilo to effect the changes and when you reboot, you should see an
entry for 10.0. When you swelect it, the 10.0 lilo menu should come up with
a choice to boot 10.0.
I hope I didn't make any mistakes, but the others on this list will quickly
correct me if I did. HTH.
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