Dual booting two distros with LILO

jaakkop · 05-27-2006, 09:14 AM

Hi,

I recently installed two slackware based distributions into my computer, first distro into hda3 and second distro to hda2. While installing the second one to hda2, I installed LILO to MBR, overwriting the other distro's LILO.

How can I boot to the one that I've installed to hda3? Sorry that I can't explain this in better way.

grezly · 05-27-2006, 09:41 AM

Edit lilo.conf on the /dev/hda2 partition.

And add the other kernel.

Like:

other = /dev/hda3
label = slack-hda3

This is very standard, you can add a lot of others options, but those are optional.
where slack-hda3 is the name that you want to have.

dcdbutler · 05-27-2006, 10:12 AM

You will need to tell lilo where the kernel image is, the easiest way I have found to do this is to mount the other partition, have an entry like this in lilo.conf and re-run lilo with the partition still mounted.

eg from my lilo.conf

Code:

image = /mnt/old/boot/vmlinuz
  root = /dev/hdb5
  label = slackold
  read-only

change the path to the kernel image and root partition accordingly.