--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for this silly question. I am new to both Debian and Linux.
My disk has following partions: /dev/hda1 DOS /dev/hda2 extended partion /dev/hda3 swap /dev/hda4 Red Hat linux /dev/hda5 Debian 1.3 By installing debian, my computer starts from /dev/hda2 and boot /dev/hda5. Can someone tell me how to setup lilo so that I can also /dev/hda4 ? I know there are doc about it, but I can not find them. :( Here is /etc/lilo.conf ------------------------- boot=/dev/hda2 root=/dev/hda5 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal image=/vmlinuz label="Debian Linux" read-only other=/dev/hda1 label="Windows 95" ---------------------------- --- end of quote --- Hmmm. I'm not exactly new to Linux, though I feel like it sometimes, and I had trouble with almost this exact problem. I was trying to do Debian 1.2 and Debian 1.3 rather than Red Hat and Debian 1.3, and I was using separate physical drives, but I think the problem is the same. The only solution I've found (I would be *very* happy to hear from someone who had a better solution) was to install LILO twice. The first copy of LILO is almost exactly the same as your setup above, with the addition of other=/dev/hda4 label="Red Hat Linux" loader=/boot/chain.b The second copy of LILO is installed in the boot block of /dev/hda4 (NOT in the MBR), and just boots by default into whatever setup that copy of Linux uses. Since I experiment with new kernel versions from time to time (part of the hazards of owning a dual processor machine), I also like to keep two kernel versions available in /etc/lilo.conf, so that there is always an old, working kernel available, no matter what sort of disaster^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H jdevelopment kernel I try. That complicates the scenario, but not by much (just an additional entry in each lilo.conf). email if you'd like copies of my two lilo.conf files. Stephen Ryan Debian GNU/Linux 1.3 Mathematics graduate student, Dartmouth College -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .