At 09:25 AM 5/17/99 +0800, you wrote:
>Dear all,
>
>My intention is installing three different OS in a 4.3 SCSI hard disk
>drive as follow.
>
>1. /dev/sda1 FreeBSD 3.1-stable
>2. /dev/sda2 Debian 2.1 (kernel 2.0.36)
>3. /dev/sda3 Slackware 3.6 (kernel 2.0.35)
>4. /dev/sda4 Linux swap for two distributions
>
>The current lilo.conf have a problem on booting the last two
>Linux distributions. This is the content of the lilo.conf.....
>
>boot=/dev/sda
>delay=30
># FreeBSD
>other=/dev/sda1
>label=freebsd
>table=/dev/sda
>read-only
># Debian
>image=/vmlinuz
>root=/dev/sda2
>label=debian
>read-only
># Slackware
>image=/vmlinuz
>root=/dev/sda3
>label=slack
>read-only
>
>This lilo.conf brings a problem of booting the same kernel forever,
>although it is configured two root partitions. I run lilo command at
>Debian system so that computer loads kernel 2.0.36 (comes with debian)
>every time, even if I want to Slackware (which comes with 2.0.35). As
>the result, Slackware cannot initize 2.0.35 modules correctly.
>
>My question is how to configure LILO points to different kernels?
>
>In my limit knowledge, I have an idea.............
>At first, I install LILO at the superblock of two Linux partitions.
>
><debian>
>boot=/dev/sda2
>root=/dev/sda2
>image=/vmlinuz
>label=debian
>read-only
>
><slackware>
>boot=/dev/sda3
>root=/dev/sda3
>image=/vmlinuz
>label=slack
>read-only
>
>After then, I install FreeBSD's boot manager in the MBR of this SCSI
>hard drive. Thus, there are two LILOes as secondary boot loader and
>they point to different distributions with different kernel.
>
>Is this idea correct?
>
>Best Regards,
>Hon-Yu Cheung
>
>
Hi:
What probably would be easier (I'm lazy) would be to have different names
for the boot image (ie: vmlinuz-deb, vmlinuz-slack, etc) then:
><debian>
>boot=/dev/sda2
>root=/dev/sda2
>image=/vmlinuz-deb <<<<<<<< different kernel image for each bootable
>label=debian
>read-only
Good Luck, Tom
P.S. If you have a kernel source, look in the readme file that gets
uncompressed with it. That explains about multiple versions.
