FemmeFatale wrote: > >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 >> > > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ > >Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? >Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > Yes, well my knowledge of Bootmagic could fill a thimble and leave room for your thumb, so I suggest making sure you do not install the RH bootlloader and adapt bootmagic to doing it however. It has been years since I used non-free software.
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