Re: [newbie] Dual Booting the same OS

[John Richard Smith]

John Richard Smith wrote:

Graham Banks wrote:

John wrote:
<Snip>
I'm not really sure , but we have been told here on newbie that once 
one install of M9.1 is completed on the second more options are 
available

<Snip> John

Yesterday I took a deep beath and installed a vanilla mdk9.1 on a 
spare partition and voila when it
came to load lilo the option was there to skip the bootloader 
installation. 


So you're at the install boot loader option, take me step by step to 
where it says you can skip lilo install.

Graham

John

Later : Friday 4th July , misindependence  day.

I found something out today about changing the lilo.conf from which lilo 
reads to boot two different M9.0 and M9.1 OS's.

If you want to change which /etc/lilo.conf  lilo boots from just boot 
into the relevent OS, and arange the stanzas in /etc/lilo.conf to suit, 
and then  /sbin/lilo. that makes lilo adopt that /etc/lilo.conf.  

I'm guessing that the same holds true of two identicle mandrake OS's.

So if you are installing two identicle Mandrake OS's and the second 
install makes you reinstall lilo against your wishes, just boot up into 
the first OS  and run /sbin/lilo, and I'm guessing it will revert it 
back to that OS's   /etc/lilo.conf.

John

John

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