The way I would do this would be:
(1) Install potato in a set of partitions (however you like to set up your
partitions). Make sure you use a separate partition for /boot, of at least 20Mb
(I'd use 50). Don't fuss too much about the lilo configuration, as it won't be
used except to perform reboots necessary during the install. Make sure you
leave room in unpartitioned space for the woody system.
Let's say you mount /dev/hda5 as /.
(2) mkdir /potato
mv /boot/* /potato
mv /potato /boot
You might like to reconfigure the paths in lilo.conf for /boot/potato instead of
/boot.
(3) Install woody almost as though potato wasn't there. Use the same partition
for /boot but DON'T reformat it (the installer calls it initialising, not
formatting, but it's the same thing).
Let's say you mount /dev/hda7 as /.
(4) mkdir /woody
mv /boot/* /woody
mv /woody/potato /boot
mv /woody /boot
So now you have /boot/potato with all the potato boot stuff in it, and
/boot/woody with all the woody stuff in it.
You should now have both systems installed but only be able to boot woody.
(5) Now configure lilo with two (at least) boots:
image=/boot/potato/vmlinuz-2.2.20-686-whatever
label=potato
root=/dev/hda5
read-only
vga=extended (or whatever)
image=/boot/woody/vmlinuz-2.4.10-686-whatever
label=woody
root=/dev/hda5
read-only
Or you could configure grub in a similar manner.
Now I, being a considerably wiser man than when I first played with lilo, would
uninstall lilo from one of the distributions so that I only had ONE lilo.conf;
that way I could not accidentally install the wrong boot sector and destroy my
setup (well, I could still destroy it, but I give myself less opportunity for
stupidity).
And that should do it.
Tom
Paul E Condon wrote:
>
> I want to rearrange my computer so that I can dual boot Patato and Woody.
> I want a separate partition for each, so that I can have a full set of
> appropriate software for each.
>
> I need advice on how to set up partitions, and how to configure lilo, etc.
> I've looked at my /etc/lilo.conf, which was created during an installation of
> Potato, and at lilo documentation. It seems to me that the instructions cover
> the case where one has several Linux kernels in the same partition, and the
> case where some entirely other, unmentionable, OS is in some other partition.
> But I want Linux OS in both, and separate.
>
> Do I need to have boot sectors at the beginning of two different partitions?
> How do I do that if I need that? When I tried to mark two partitions as
> bootable, the software (fdisk?) refused to accept the command.
>
> What do I do about the master boot record (MBR)? Do I need to put something
> sepcial there? How?
>
> Is there a HOWTO on this?
>
> Thanks.
>
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