Rodolfo Medina wrote: >>You have a working 10.1 you could just add 9.1 to your 10.1 lilo.conf >> >>Heres an aproach that has worked for me. >> >>You can boot to your 10.1 and mount the 9.1 side. >> >>[root]# mkdir /mnt/mdk9.1 >>[root]# mount /dev/hda7 /mnt/mdk9.1 >> >>Now cd to /mnt/mdk9.1 and take a look make sure it is the / >>directory of your 9.1 and you can see /boot. If not then you need to >>umount it and find the right /dev/hda? and mount it to /mnt/mdk9.1 >> >>Then you'll need to create an fstab entry for it. >> >>[root]# vi /etc/fstab >> >>Or your favorite editor, and create a line like this >> >>/dev/hda7 /mnt/mdk9.1 ext3 defaults 1 2 >> >>Save the file, then create a lilo entry. >> >>[root]# vi lilo.conf >> >>The entry would be similar to below. >> >>image=/mnt/mdk9.1/boot/vmlinuz >> label="mdk9.1" >> root=/dev/hda7 >> initrd=/mnt/mdk9.1/boot/initrd.img >> append="acpi=ht resume=/dev/hda6 splash=no" >> vga=788 >> read-only >> >>and save the file then you can run lilo to test it >> >>[root]# lilo -v -t >> >>if no errors then you can write lilo >> >>[root]# lilo >> >>Then when you reboot you should have option to boot to your 9.1 >> >> >>Mike > > > Mike's easy step by step procedure worked successfully, > and now when I reboot I have option to boot on my 9.1, > but with some undesired effects: > when I try to connect to Internet with the command 'wvdial', as I did > before, > I get the message: 'Cannot open /dev/ttySL0: No such file or directory'. > Besides, the command 'uname -r', which shows the kernel, > outputs the 10.1 kernel and not the 9.1. > Also KDE has changed: it has upgraded to the 3.2 version without I'd asked > for this. > I don't know if there are other such modifications, > but I thought that two different linux partitions were to be independent > each other, > wheras I see that 10.1 has influenced 9.1. > If it is so, then I can't use a second linux partition > to experiment new releases and distributions, which was my real purpose. > Maybe these side effects can be avoided with the more complicated procedure > suggested by Mikkel? If not, the only way is buying a second hard disk on > which doing experiments. > Any hint about the connecting problem? > > Cheers, > Rodolfo > >
Rodolfo, Boot to you 10.1 and post your lilo.conf and list the contents of /boot directory and list the contents of /etc/fstab Also list the contents of /mnt/mdk9.1(hd7 or what ever you named it)/etc/fstab And we will see what is going on. The set up you want is what I have now a stable version of mdk and an experimental newer one and used to have a windows partion too, but finally got rid of that ;-) So it can be done on one disk. You can reverse what you have done, and follow Mikkel's instructions easily by see below: --------------------------------------------------- If you would like to get back to where you started from all you have to do is boot to 10.1 and remove the /etc/fstab entry you made for 9.1 /etc/lilo.conf entry you made for 9.1 unmount the /mnt/mdk9.1 you made like [root]# umount /dev/hda7 Then remove the mount point you made [root]# rmdir /mnt/mdk9.1 Then run lilo [root]# lilo -v --------------------------------------------------- Mike
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