On Sun, 23 Jan 2000, Jack Byers wrote:
> Sorry for the repeat, the redhat digest evidently cutoff last half
> of full reply
> Here it is again, with a few more comments hopefully clarifying
> just how I set up multiple RH on different disks.
i'd like some comments on another way to set up multiple linux
installations on the same box that i've been thinking of trying.
haven't done it yet, but i'm curious if there's any fatal flaw.
for each installation, set up LILO to install in the boot partition
for that install -- NOT in the mbr. then, set up a separate lilo.conf
file that refers to EVERY different installation on the machine as
an "other=" stanza in /etc/lilo.conf, just as you would for DOS, NT,
etc. that's the lilo info that gets placed in the MBR.
in essence, booting would go thru two levels of LILO:
1) the first level, in the MBR, just gets you to the boot
partition
2) LILO in that boot sector contains all the info for that
particular install.
i see no obvious reason why this wouldn't work, and it negates
the need for each installation to have mounted all the /boots from
the other installs.
comments?
rday
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