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Thats how I do all of my multy booting systems... Each OS has its own boot (grub, lilo, etc...) as it was stand alone and all I have to do is set lilo (In my primary OS) to point me to the drive and thats all.... Very simple!
Good recommendation!
Be warned: Ubuntu will want to install / to an ext4 partition.
I don't think lilo can boot ext4 (grub "legacy" couldn't either (but maybe things have changed), hence the move by ubuntu to "grub2")
You should be OK if you make sure you use an ext3 partition for / or install grub2
Be warned: Ubuntu will want to install / to an ext4 partition.
I don't think lilo can boot ext4 (grub "legacy" couldn't either (but maybe things have changed), hence the move by ubuntu to "grub2")
You should be OK if you make sure you use an ext3 partition for / or install grub2
You could also use LILO to boot Ubuntu directly. First you mount it to /mnt/hd, then you go to its /boot directory and look for its vmlinuz file name as well as the initrd file name. Let's assume its Linux image is vmlinuz-ubuntu and its initrd is initrd-ubuntu.gz.Edit lilo.conf and add something like:
Don't forget to add the /mnt/hd (or whatever point you choose to mount on) to the lilo.conf. If you don't do that, LILO won't be able to find it. Then you run lilo.
You could also use LILO to boot Ubuntu directly. First you mount it to /mnt/hd, then you go to its /boot directory and look for its vmlinuz file name as well as the initrd file name. Let's assume its Linux image is vmlinuz-ubuntu and its initrd is initrd-ubuntu.gz.Edit lilo.conf and add something like:
Don't forget to add the /mnt/hd (or whatever point you choose to mount on) to the lilo.conf. If you don't do that, LILO won't be able to find it. Then you run lilo.
Thank you, this worked. But I've got several more quetions and I made another post.
Thanks to all of you guys!
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