On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 6:12 pm, Richard Urwin wrote: > 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.
Fair enough. I would think fstab would need some scrutinising, if you did something as drastic as that. Anne
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