Tom,
You gave me new hope.
Rebuilding the kernel I something I don't really like to do at the moment.
The way you explained it is understandable even for me.
I'll try it.
Thank you,
Remon
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht-----
Van: Tom Davis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Aan: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Datum: maandag 7 augustus 2000 7:22
Onderwerp: Re: triple-boot manager?
>On Tue, 08 Aug 2000, Roadrunner wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> I think that the idea of running 3 operating systems on one computer is a
>> little bit too difficult for me.
>>
>> I thought that the problem would lie in the bootmanager, but when people
>> start talking about rebuilding the kernel, that's where I stop.
>>
>> I'm a real newbee and I don't know much about Linux. (for e.g. I don't
even
>> know how to install or run a program, but I'm really making time to read
>> about Linux and I'm still busy with the graphics*)
>> *see my mail from a few weeks ago.
>>
>> I thank all of you for your kind responces and clear answers and I'm
sorry
>> to have waisted your time.
>>
>> Remon
>
>
>I know you've said that you don't want to do it any more, but I managed it
and
>I'm a newbie ;-)
>
>Heres how I did it:
>
>I have one hard disk (hda), with windows installed on the first partition
>(hda1), RedHat installed on the second partition (hda2) and Caldera
installed
>on the third partition (hda3). The way I got round it was by installing
Lilo
>on the MBR of the first partition, from here I can choose whether to load
>Windows, RedHat or Caldera. Windows and RedHat were easy, because the
RedHat
>installer set these up automatically. When I installed Caldera I chose to
>install a second copy of Lilo on Caldera's root partition (hda3), this
loaded
>just Caldera instantly - I set the timeout to 0.
>
>Finally, in the lilo.conf file for RedHat, I added the following:
>
>other=/dev/hda3
> label=caldera
>
>This loads the version of lilo installed on the caldera partition (hda3).
>
>So, to sum up: the lilo.conf installed by RedHat reads:
>
>boot=/dev/hda
>map=/boot/map
>install=/boot/boot.b
>prompt
>timeout=50
>linear
>default=redhat
>
>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
> label=redhat
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda2
>
>other=/dev/hda1
> label=dos
>
>other=/dev/hda3
> label=caldera
>
>
>And the lilo.conf installed on the caldera partition reads (something like
this
>- i no longer have the system setup like this, but the installers should do
>most of it automatically):
>
>boot=/dev/hda
>map=/boot/map
>install=/boot/boot.b
>prompt
>timeout=0
>linear
>default=caldera
>
>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.xx
> label=caldera
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda3
>
>
>Hope this helps,
>
>Tom Davis
>
>
>
>
>
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