Dave Reed wrote:
>I've looked (albeit quickly) at the lilo and lilo.conf man pages and
>the LILO HOWTO and am not certain exactly how to do this - and don't
>want to try for fear of messing things up.
dave
here is what I did, with a lot of help from my vendor netexpress
www.tdl.com/~netex
essentially I have two lilo.conf and two fstab
the change in fstab i do with just commenting and uncommenting a few lines
/dev/sda4 / ext2 defaults 1 1
###/dev/sda4 /data2 ext2 defaults 1 2
###/dev/sdb1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/sdb1 /redhat5.2 ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda1 /win95 vfat defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb2 swap swap defaults 0 0
/dev/sdb5 /data ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy ext2 noauto 0 0
/dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom iso9660 noauto,ro 0 0
none /proc proc defaults 0 0
this set up is for two different versions of rh5.2 but one could be rh6.1
as shown above it is set up with root (/) on sda4
and the alternate root on sdb1 mounted on /redhat5.2
this latter doesnt have to be mounted when using sda4 as root
and in fact i usually have 4th line commented out running this way
but it is useful to have both mounted when setting things up
when I switch to the alternate root the top four lines above become
####/dev/sda4 / ext2 defaults 1 1
/dev/sda4 /data2 ext2 defaults 1 2
/dev/sdb1 / ext2 defaults 1 1
####/dev/sdb1 /redhat5.2 ext2 defaults 1 1
now root(/) is on sdb1, that was previously mntd on /redhat5.2
my previous root on sda4 is now mounted on /data2
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lilo.conf
has its two different stanzas
what is shown below has one of them commented out but that is not necessary
boot=/dev/sda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
#image=/redhat5.2/boot/vmlinuz
# label=linux
# root=/dev/sdb1
## initrd=/boot/initrd-2.0.36-0.7.img
# read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=sda4alt5.2
root=/dev/sda4
read-only
other=/dev/sda1
label=win95
table=/dev/sda
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I think this is exactly like I am running now
altho i edited my files to get rid of distracting stuff
so possibly i have messed something up slightly
I havent switched to the other root in sometime now so
again maybe not quite complete but i think it is ok.
but you should at least get the general idea
regards
jack
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