On Mon, Dec 02, 2002 at 05:48:56PM -0800, alberto wrote: > > Please, send reply to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I have 2 debians installed on my system but I'm having troubles with having > LILO allowing me to boot any of those. > > I have potato on /dev/hda3. > I just erased win on /dev/hda1 :-)) and installed Woody there. > > Now, Woody's LILO offers me a prompt to boot the old potato, but won't make > it: If I try, it will stop at > LIL- > > What is the correct way to have woody's LILO load my potato on /dev/hda3? > I'd also love to keep the subchoiches there for different kernels.
You may want to check the mail list archives; there has been several discussions of this in the past. Here is couple of discussions on the subject that are not Debian/GNU specific. The second one gives a nice example of how to set up your lilo.conf: http://groups.google.com/groups?q=boot+multiple+linux+distributions&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=6LW35.208561%24MB.3800243%40news6.giganews.com&rnum=1 http://groups.google.com/groups?q=boot+multiple+linux+distributions&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=Pine.LNX.3.91.980622195520.9602A-100000%40xgw10.pal.xgw.fi&rnum=3 -- Jerome
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