On Monday 28 July 2003 10:46 pm, Stephen Kuhn wrote: > On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 13:24, Dennis Myers wrote: > > Has anyone installed two MLinux on two seperate HDs on the same comp and > > figured out how to get lilo to read them both at boot? I am trying to do > > it so that I can beta test and yet run the regular system when I am not > > running tests. Any hints or manual suggestions are appreciated, I have > > not found anything to help. > > It would truly be a matter of properly writting out the /etc/lilo.conf > of the first installation; the first installation would write the lilo > to the MBR of the first HD; then after you've done all that wonderful > jazz and gotten your primary installation up and running, do a second > installation on the "second" drive, but choose to NOT write lilo; then > make note of the boot partition for the second installation and whatnot, > and then write that into the /etc/lilo.conf on the first drive.
Thanks Stephen, that is essentially what I am trying to do, just not getting it right. I will try a clean install of the beta and not write lilo I think this is where I screwed up. Thanks again, -- Dennis M. linux user #180842
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