[installation]dual boot with Mandrake for test
Paul Howarth
paul at city-fan.org
Thu Jan 27 10:51:14 UTC 2005
Daniel Moyne wrote:
> I have installed Fedora Core 3 on different partitions than those used by
> Mandrake ; my fedora partitions are like this :
> /dev/hdb1 "/"
> /dev/hdb5 "/swap"
> /dev/hdb7 "/usr/local"
>
> During the installation it was proposed to me to install GRUB on "/dev/hda"
> where as far as I know I have my LILO installed to boot my Mandrake ; the I
> had to select the only option left to me : no bootloader ;
Strange; I would have expected there to be an option to install grub on
/dev/hdb1 too.
> after this all was
> installed smoothly onto the hereabove mentioned partitions and hopefully the
> job should not have been done in vain ; now which kind of entry do I have to
> put inseret on my LILO bootloader to switch to my Fedora at boot ? ;
> basically the way I installed my Fedora distribution is it usable ?
It should be OK. I haven't used LILO for a long time myself so this may
be wrong but I think what you need is a lilo.conf entry like this:
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667
label=fc3
initrd=/boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
read-only
root=/dev/hdb1
You will of course need to make a new entry after you have upgraded your
kernel. It would be a good idea to install grub on /dev/hdb1 and add a
LILO entry to chain-load grub; I *think* the following lilo.conf entry
may be what you need to do this, once you've installed grub.
other=/dev/hdb1
label=grub
Paul.
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