Rodolfo Medina wrote:
>On my 40 Gigabyte hard disk I used to have two partitions:
>one (30 GB) containig Windows 98 and the other (10 GB) with Linux Mandrake
>9.1.
>Now I created a third partition with another 10 GB token off Windows,
>and in it I installed successfully Mandrake Community 10.1.
>When I boot the system I can only enter Mandrake 10.1.
>How to access my dear old 9.1?
>From within the new partition I did the following procedure
(x is the old partition device number):
1) # mkdir /mnt/linux2
2) # mount /dev/hdax /mnt/linux2
3) In the file /mnt/linux2/etc/lilo.conf I changed the line
boot=/dev/hda
into
boot=/dev/hdax
4) I got into linux2 root:
# chroot /mnt/linux2 /bin/bash
5) , and there
# lilo -v
6) I got back to the new partition root, and at the end of the file
/etc/fstab I added the line
/dev/hdax /mnt/linux2 ext3 defaults 1 2
; then at the end of the file /etc/lilo.conf I added the following:
image=/mnt/linux2/boot/vmlinuz
label="linux2"
root=/dev/hdax
initrd=/mnt/linux2/boot/initrd.img
append="acpi=ht resume=/dev/hday splash=no"
vga=788
read-only
, where 'y' in hday should be the swap partition device number.
7) # lilo -v -t
8) # lilo
Everything seems to have gone well,
now when booting I can choose if going into linux or linux2,
and the new partition has not modified the old one,
except for one thing:
in the old partition I have to reinstall the modem,
i.e. rerun the modem driver.
Why? Does anybody know?
Is the above procedure correct?
Maybe a bug in Mdk 10.1 Community (the new partition OS)?
Thanks,
Rodolfo
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