Help with triple booting
I know people do this, but I seem to have no luck with getting lilo to cooperate. I love to experiment with different distros. I am always constantly trying new ones out. When I try to add a new distro to a lilo or grub file I must do it wrong, because I always get an error saying error loading chainloader +1 or something like that. Can't I just add the lines pointing to the partition I have the new install on, here is an example of my lilo.conf file:
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 label=linux initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.20-8.img read-only append="hdd=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/" other=/dev/hda1 optional label=DOS other=/dev/hda6 optional label=hda6 I had gentoo on /dev/hda6 and it doesn't boot Also is there a way to always keep home on a seperate partition so its always there. Can I just add a line in fstab on every distro to access all my files in the home directory. Thanks for any help. P.S. I am currently booting with grub, but I'm not too good with it either. |
First things first,
you must not label any Linux distro as other. It si the same with LILO or GRUB. You will again have to give all the details such as image=/boot/vmlinuzXXXXXX label=l initrd=/boot/initrd-XXXXX.img read-only append= You can use one swap for multiple linux distros but I don't think u can have a common home. |
look at my lilo.conf
I have windoze, RH8, and ELX linux: prompt timeout=70 default=RH8 boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.b message=/boot/message lba32 image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 label=RH8 initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-14.img read-only append="hdc=ide-scsi root=LABEL=/" image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-12elx label=ELX initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-12elx.img root=/dev/hda8 read-only other=/dev/hda1 optional label=Win98 Hope this helps |
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