civileme wrote: *faints* My lord, that is a helluva set of instructions, some of which I'm not sure I understood completely. But I will give it a shot. However I use Bootmagic for my booting needs & to dual boot OSes. If I read that correctly, Lilo would be used doing your method Civil. Correct? Femme > > > Only 4 primary partitions per disk, and one of them has to be used as > the root or container for extended partitions if you have any. That > leaves 3. > > BUT.... > > Partitions are the last 66 bytes of the first sector on the first track > of the first cylinder of the disk. There are 4 16-byte fields which > define the beginning CHS address, the number of blocks, the type, etc. > If the type is extended, then the CHS points to a part of the disk > where the software will read the first sector for two items--one is the > real CHS and extent of the first extended partition and the second is a > pointer to the next sector that is used for a definition of the next > extended partition. > > It is ridiculous to have a stricture that the beginning / or /boot be > primary... If you default install Mandrake, you get NO primaries, and > LILO or GRUB still work. And we are still largely compatuble with RH, > at least for rpms. > > Anyway, boot up Mandrake and go to Mandrake Control Center. Find "Mount > Points" and start that up > > Now look at the disk. The ext2 partition you want to put RH on should > be shown... clear it by deletion then click on the blank area and > create a new partition and specify that it be primary. (That's under > preference) Check in the window by clicking on the new partition and > make sure it is one of hdx1-4. If not, and if there is actually room to > make one, then open a terminal window, su to root, and make the > partition with fdisk (VERY carefully and with thought). It may be that > the extended partition has claimed all of the disk and you can resize it > with fdisk non-destructively so its end is at the last of the last > extended partition defined after you undefine the one you want to use > for RH. > > PM is NOT capable of doing this. > > OK with the primary defined, install RH but CANCEL bootloader > instalation or you may lose Mandrake. You can just make a boot floppy > or you can do the following: > > 1. Make the RH partition mountable under Mandrake -- call the mount > point /spare. You use diskdrake (the MCC "Mount Points") to do this. > > 2. Open two instances of Applications=>File Tools=>File Manager (Super > User Mode)--point one at /spare/boot and the other at /boot > > 3. There will be a file called /spare/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-something and > another called initrd.img-2.4.7-samesomething that you need to drag to > /boot. Do that and close the file managers > > 4. Now Use Mandrake Control Center => Boot configuration. Add a new > boot with > vmlinuz-2.4.7-something as your image, the initrd you dragged over as > your intird, and the root filesystem the /dev/hda4 or whatever primary > you chose. > > That will work and will triple-boot W2K, Mandtrake, and RH > > A better way is to have a separate named /boot shared among your linux > systems. Then those steps are unnecessary. > > /home can often effectively be shared among linux systems--all you have > to watch for is making a user who has the same user and group number in > every system. *the /home/username directory and all files within belong > to that user by user and group number* > > Write and let us know how you fare. > > Civileme > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
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