Date sent: Mon, 03 Jun 2002 16:16:24 +0300 From: Chavdar Videff <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Send reply to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] running 2 linuxes on a single machine
Well, it is possible to have 2 linuxes on one box. I am sure lot's of people have done it, including me just a bit past the beginner stage. I have a machine where I can boot into Redhat 7.2, Mandrake 8.2, or Redhat 7.3. (and I have room for one more) I happen to be using grub instead of lilo. I find it a lot easier to reconfigure when I set up a new OS. When you install the second OS, dont let it do anything to your boot loader, and then modify lilo (or grub) by hand. > Hi > I tried and installed two different distributions of linux on the same > machine in order to compare them, etc. The first one was a Mandrake > 8.1 and I use its lilo to boot all other OS. Everything was OK and > worked smoothly. However, I installed a SuSE 7.0 and during the > installation process everything worked fine. When I rebooted, the SuSE > started to behave strangely. Modprobe could not find the eth0 for > instance. I was not able to mount vfat partitions. I could not even > makeconfig in order to recompile the kernel (I thought something got > wrong with the NIC driver). This was at work. At home I tried the same > combination with the same result. Then I changed the things on my > machine at home. I installed SuSE 6.3 to be the first linux and as the > second I tried a Mandrake 8.0 that I had installed successfully some > months before. It did not work. I suspected that something is wrong > and installed as the only linux the said SuSE 7.0 on another machine. > It was just perfectly ok. Then at work I booted the SuSE 7.0 via the > boot floppy disk and it worked fine, modeprobed everything, the > network was fine, etc. When I booted the Mandrake it initialized and > then it had an error with the X server that was totally unexpected and > hardly recoverable. What's wrong? Is it the LILO that messes up > things? Is it the swap partition that is read by both OS? Is it > possible to have two linuxes on a single machine at all? How can I > avoid booting any linux via a floppy boot disk which I find > inconvenient? > > Thanks > Chavdar > > > >
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