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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Wed, 1 Dec 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > I may just set up with lilo and choose between
> > DOS, BL3

I also asked about BL2 - can I choose between DOS and two versions of 
linux on the same computer?  I have DOS in hda1 hda2 hda3 hda4 and linux 
in hdb1 (BL3) and hdb2 (BL2)

Can I add BL2 to the lilo.conf file in BL3 /etc and just execute it once 
to put both linuxes into the boot sector?

BL3 is the default OS here.  How would I set up DOS as the default, by 
putting it first?

My book does not have 'delay' or 'other', just table and label for DOS.
It says to press Ctrl-Atl or Shift during boot to get a boot prompt at 
which I can enter BL3 or DOS.  Does the following give you 20 something 
(1/10 seconds?) to choose without the need to press Shift?

I cannot figure out how to put both BL3 and BL2 on here and tell lilo 
where to look for zimage if they use different kernels.  How would lilo 
know where to look, or does it look for the first /boot/zimage it finds? 
Would I put BL2 as another 'other' section?

This would also be relevant if we wanted to try putting several different 
linuxes on one drive to compare how they work.

I see why you steer beginners to loadlin instead.


> /etc/lilo.conf
> ------------------              Questions/comments:
> boot=/dev/hda                   The boot loader lives here.
> delay=20                        wait 2 seconds?
> image=/boot/zimage              Is this BL3 /boot partition?  /hda3/boot
>  label=BL3                      Type BL3 at boot prompt
>  root=/dev/hda3		BL3 root is here 
>  read-write			mount rw
> other=/dev/hda1         DOS lives here (I boot it from hda1)
>  label=DOS
> ------------------
> Execute:  lilo -v
> This assumes the BL3 root filesystem is
> /dev/hda3 and the BL3 zimage is in /boot
>
> Cheers,
> Steven