Slackware /Gentoo AMD64

steved123 · 08-11-2005, 01:46 PM

I'm about to get a new cpu and motherboard. It's going to be an AMD Athlon-64. I currently have 2 40 gig harddrives in the system. I have Slack 10.1 on hda. I want to install
Gentoo AMD64 on hdb. I'm a little leery of using Grub to boot my system. Can I just edit my lilo config on hda to access the Gentoo system on hdb?

tuxdev · 08-11-2005, 01:55 PM

Sure!
1. Copy kernel to /boot
2. Create new image boot section in /etc/lilo.conf. Copy&Paste very useful here.
3. Change the kernel image to /boot/whatever
4. Change the root to /dev/hdb

You may want to put this in a separate /boot partition if you are going to reinstall Slackware in the form of slamd64.

steved123 · 08-11-2005, 02:07 PM

Quote:

Originally posted by tuxdev
Sure!
1. Copy kernel to /boot
2. Create new image boot section in /etc/lilo.conf. Copy&Paste very useful here.
3. Change the kernel image to /boot/whatever
4. Change the root to /dev/hdb

You may want to put this in a separate /boot partition if you are going to reinstall Slackware in the form of slamd64.

Won't the kernel and system.map for the AMD64 be in "/dev/hdb1/boot" after I do the installation? Making step 1 unnecessary? Or do I have to copy the kernel residing in /boot on hdb1 to /boot on hda1. Can't I just tell lilo to look in "/hdb1/boot"?

tuxdev · 08-11-2005, 04:12 PM

You could do it somehow, but I think its easier to have one main /boot so that LILO does not get confused about the meaning of /boot.