FemmeFatale wrote: > At 08:45 PM 9/26/2002 +1200, you wrote: > >> <large surgical incision> > > >> > Point me or kick me in teh right direction pls!? >> > --- >> > Femme >> >> You should be only allowed to have one /boot. I am fairly certain LILO >> insists on it. Copy these files to a floppy: >> >> /boot/vmlinuzXXXXXXXXXXX >> /boot/initrdXXXXXXXXXXX >> /etc/lilo.conf >> >> Make sure the /boot/ files are the real thing and not pointers to the >> real >> thing. Then wait one day to make sure i gave these instructions >> correctly ;-0 >> >> RESCUE your old system LILO setup (details given heaps of time on here). >> >> Boot to the old (good) install. >> >> Copy the vmlinuz and initrd into /boot. >> >> Back up lilo.conf. Copy the relevant stanza from the floppy lilo.conf >> into >> the active one. >> >> Reboot and Bobs your uncle, (Bobs my brother, are you my niece or >> daughter?) >> -- >> Michael > > > From what i've read here on the list and in books, you should have 2 > boot partitions ... each one for a different installation. I did ask > once about a single /boot partition for all my linux installs but I > was told that can be quite tricky. I Know i tried it once, and i > ended up fuxoring my whole set of 2 installs in one day :P > > Not that I mind... It just means I have more to learn & More to do. > :) Ty for your input Michael. Should call ya Saint Michael just b/c > you're so sweet in taking time to answer ppls questions :) > > Sir Robin certainly believed me... hehe I knighted him a while ago ;p > --- > Femme > > There's dual linux boot with a single /boot partition the simplest way to do it. There is dual linux boot with NO /boot partition at all.In this case, there are two boot directories one in each base / of each OS, in which case the boot directory of the second install is the dominent working one and the kernel and initrd files from the first OS install are copied across to the boot directory of the second OS.It's more complicated to set up but works just as well.
The simplest way is to create a /boot PARTITION, and let drakX do the rest. As I recall you had a problem with yours because you had a file system that was not ext2, and for some reason the installer would not let you have a kernel install in your /boot partition because of this none ext2 file system. If you had had an ext2 /boot partition I'm sure it would of gone well for you. regards, John -- John Richard Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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