Multi booting, Can this be done? How?

linux_nubee · 10-02-2003, 11:25 AM

I have a request to multi-boot the following OS:
Win98
Windows2000 server
Redhat 7.2
Redhat 8.0

I want to use LILO as the boot loader and its a 20gig hard drive

Win98 1gig, W2k server 2gigs, redhat7.2/8.0 rest of drive.

Can some please give me specific directions where to start.

Can you be specific in the partion sizes.

So far I have all but Red hat 7.2 working using LILO, Scince then I started from scratch

Thank you Very VERY MUCH!!

Mirrorball · 10-02-2003, 01:56 PM

A suggestion:

/dev/hda1: 1 GB for Windows 98
/dev/hda2: 2 GB for Windows 2000
/dev/hda3: /boot (100 MB?)
/dev/hda4: extended partition
/dev/hda5: swap (1 or 2 * your RAM)
/dev/hda6: / for RedHat 7 (3 or 4 GB)
/dev/hda7: / for RedHat 8 (3 or 4 GB)
/dev/hda8: /home/

Why do you want to install both RedHat 7 and RedHat 8? You are wasting a lot of space.

Mirrorball · 10-02-2003, 01:58 PM

Oh, install Windows 98 first, then Windows 2000, then RedHat 7, save your /boot/, install RedHat 8, copy your RedHat 7 kernel to /boot/ again and change grub.conf accordingly.

linux_nubee · 10-02-2003, 02:46 PM

There is a request from some high staffed people, to have two distros of Redhat. Believe me, I asked the same thing. lol

How do I copy the kernal over?

When installing RH7.2, where do I install LILO? /mbr, the /boot, or not at all.

Thank a milion!

whansard · 10-02-2003, 03:08 PM

win98 and 2000 can go in the same partition if you want.
you can just have 2 big logical partitions for the hat's, or
1 in a primary and another in a logical. however you wish.
but, you can only have 4 primary partitions. an extended
partition with logical drives in it count against that total as
1. you can install lilo in the root partition of each install,
and use a different boot loader of your choice to get to
those boot sectors. the nt boot loader, lilo or grub. the
old version of lilo with the redhat 7.x might not be able
to boot past 8 gigs into the drive.

linux_nubee · 10-02-2003, 03:37 PM

I can boot everything except 7.2, This is the error that I get when choosing 7.2 while using LILO

Error 13: Invalad or unsupported executable format
Press any key to continue

This is my old grub file when I tried dual booting hat 7.2 and 8.0
that too, gave me the above error.

====GRUB FILE=====RH8.0
#boot=/dev/hda
default=0
timeout=10

splashimage=(hd0,4)/grub/splash.xpm.gz
title 8.0 (2.1.18-14)
root (hd0,4)
kernal /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABLE=/1
initrd /initrd-2.4.18.-14.img

title 7.2
rootnoverify (hd0,1)
chainloader +1

whansard · 10-02-2003, 04:42 PM

root (hd0,4)
kernal /vmlinuz-2.4.18-14 ro root=LABLE=/1
initrd /initrd-2.4.18.-14.img

did you type that in by hand or paste it?

kernal? LABLE?

Mirrorball · 10-02-2003, 05:32 PM

Could you please post here your partition table?

linux_nubee · 10-02-2003, 06:15 PM

whansard:
That was created automatically, I did not type that in. This is how installed it

Win98
w2K server
Rhat7.2
Rhat8.0

Mirrorball:
I dont have a partition table, I scince fdisked it and was going to try it over again, but I am open for suggestions.

Thanks

whansard · 10-02-2003, 10:42 PM

you probably didn't do anything wrong. you just didn't
get 1 thing done. you didn't need to dump everything.