[H-GEN] Dual boot 2 Linux drives

[Stuart Longland]

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David Munn wrote:

| Hi All....tnx for reading this
|
| I'm trying to dual boot 2 40 ghz h/d that i have....this one has
Slackware 9

40GHz hard drive -- fast eh? ;-)

| on it and boots with LILO....the other one (used for Ham Radio work)
has Red
| Hat 8 and usually boots with GRUB  (can change it to boot with LILO)....
| the problem i have is that i cant work or find out how to set this
LILO.CONF
| file up so that i will be able to choose the other drive and get it to
| work.....[...]

Is it possible to just use GRUB to dual boot rather than LILO.  I know
it's possible with both, however, it shouldn't be that difficult to make
GRUB dual boot both of them.

Essentially, you'll have a couple of entries in your /boot/grub/menu.lst

title Slackware 9.0
	root (hd0,0)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ro ...

title Red Hat 8.0
	root (hd1,0)
	kernel /boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hdb1 ro ...
	initrd /boot/initrd-2.4.20-8...

As I say, it should be possible with LILO, although I haven't looked
into it myself.
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