Multiple O.S. on one computer

dkashtiban · 11-26-2003, 02:26 AM

Hey guys, I have one hard drive first O.S. is XP, Second is RedHat9 and third is SuSe all on one hard drive. I installed XP and then RedHat and everything was fine, however I went to install SuSe and it installed fine, however it overwrote my RedHat partition with SuSe and all that comes up on the boot loader is XP and SuSe, I can see RedHats partition (in f disk i can see it) however I cant acess it through the boot loader. How can I have lilo show all three? is there anytype of software or anytype of thing I missed. Please let me know.

dkashtiban@yahoo.com

carlywarly · 11-26-2003, 02:54 AM

I use XOSL to boot my Linux installations. I install the bootloader for each one in its root partition, and use XOSL to boot each root partition. Have a look at www.xosl.org for more info.

mjolnir · 11-26-2003, 06:14 AM

I think that you can edit your lilo.conf, run lilo from root, and be able to load all three os.
Doing a search on the forum will find you loads of info.

LinuxLala · 11-26-2003, 09:04 AM

Nice point mjolnir,

what you shud do is to run /etc/lilo.conf in yourfavourite text editor (vi). You will now have to make an entry into lilo.conf about RH. You will have to mention it's boot-point, location of root etc.

Better visit http://www.tldp.org

Also check out

http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html

setlec_seta · 11-26-2003, 11:09 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by carlywarly
I use XOSL to boot my Linux installations. I install the bootloader for each one in its root partition, and use XOSL to boot each root partition. Have a look at www.xosl.org for more info.

Hi u do use all the distrib on ur computer as is wrote on ur description???

stinehart · 11-26-2003, 12:23 PM

Im having a similar issue