Barry Premeaux wrote:
>
> I am trying to set up a dual boot system
> (linux only). I added a second hard drive (a
> 40G Maxtor) to my system so I could install
> the alternate distro's.
>
> My first drive (/dev/hda) is an 8.4G Western
> digital. It has MD8.1 installed on it.
>
> /dev/hda4 Swap
> /dev/hda5 /
> /dev/hda7 /home
> /dev/hda6 /var
>
> I installed the second drive (/dev/hdd) and
> loaded MD8.2.
>
> /dev/hdd1 /boot
> /dev/hdd5 /
> /dev/hdd6 /home
> /dev/hdd7 Swap
> /dev/hdd8 /var
>
> The boot flag is set on /hdd and I had MD8.2
> install its LILO on this drive. On the first
> drive, I added the following to LILO:
>
> other=/dev/hdd1
> label=MD8.2
>
> When I try to boot MD8.2 to, I get the
> following error:
>
> Loading MD8.2
> Error 0x01
> boot: MD8.2
>
> Can someone tell me what I need to do to make
> this work?
>
> Barry
>
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Hi Barry,
I do almost the same thing except my second linux is on hda8 (the /
partition which also has all other partitions except /var & /home). My
lilo entry for my second linux looks like this:
other=/dev/hda8
label=Debian
Both linuxs boot fine.
HTH
Charles
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