A J Stiles wrote: > If I partition my drive appropriately, can I use LILO to dual-boot a 32-bit > kernel and a 64-bit kernel with {at least} a shared /home and swap space, > but separate / partitions? > > I think it should be possible, this way, to keep all the nasty binary-only > stuff tucked out of the way in a directory which won't even appear when the > system is booted in 64-bit mode. > > But I thought I'd ask first, incase someone knows of a good reason I have not > thought of why this won't work. >
Greetings: I do that with my machine (using grub rather than lilo, though) without any major problems. The only problem that I've run into has to do with having both the 32-bit and 64-bit version of a program installed. Sometimes the two versions have different ideas about configuration files and data file formats that it stores in /home. If the program has a conversion process for converting data files from 32-bit to 64-bit, then you will have problems if you try to run both versions on your machine. -Scott -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]