That's nice and confusing. But many thanks for making my job (at least this
part) simpler.
Thanks
Norman Dresner
Fellow Systems Engineer & SGI Laboratory Administrator
Radar Systems Engineering Department
Electronic Systems and Sensors Segment
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dmitri A. Sergatskov [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, March 09, 2001 12:23 PM
> To: Dresner, Norman A.
> Cc: 'RTLinux'
> Subject: Re: [rtl] Switching RTL OS versions
>
> On Fri, 9 Mar 2001, Dresner, Norman A. wrote:
> .....
>
> > from which to boot is a "global" parameter.
>
> The drive too boot from is global, but it has nothing to do with
> physical location of your distribution (e.g. you can boot from floppy).
> So if you have say old redhat on hda and new on hdc:
> (you may want to have either /boot partition common or copy boot images
> to appropriate partitions)
>
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> message=/boot/message
> linear
> default=linux-new
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.18
> label=linux-new
> read-only
> root=/dev/hdc1
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36
> label=linux-old
> read-only
> root=/dev/hda1
>
>
> Many people have done it many times.
>
> Regards,
>
> Dmitri.
>
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