On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 8:57 am, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 5:29 am, Dennis Myers wrote: > > 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, > > Just wondering - if you installed to the second drive without the > first attached and let it write its lilo, wouldn't that give you the > info you need? Then re-attaching the first drive it would boot from > the original lilo, Ithink, and you could add the necessary stanza? > > Or am I crazy <g>
You would have to edit /etc/fstab on the second drive, because it would mount /dev/hda instead of /dev/hdb. -- Richard Urwin
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