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Old 03-04-2005, 11:21 AM   #1
thenowherekid
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Dual Booting Mandrake 10.1 with Slackware 10.1


I was wondering if anyone has ever dual booted Mandrake with Slackware yet. I really want to have both of these on my computer but I don't know how to get Lilo to read both of them. I installed Slackware last nite, and it works just fine, and this morning i installed Mandrake, now it works fine, but i cant get over to slackware. can somebody show me how its done? any help i can i get will be fine. thanks
 
Old 03-04-2005, 06:08 PM   #2
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Ok, first, you need to get your Slackware root partition mounted, so create a mount point:

# mkdir /mnt/slackware

Then mount Slackware's root partition:

# mount -t ext3 -o rw /dev/path to physical slackware root partition/mnt/slackware

This is assuming your Slackware partitions are ext3 - substitue the correct file system as appropriate.

Ok, now Slackware's root partition is mounted, you need to check the PATH to the kernel and initrd file. It'll probably be in the /mnt/slackware/boot directory.

Then you need to edit your lilo configuration file: etc/lilo.conf.
As root, add the entry for Slackware, making sure you've checked the PATH's and the correct physical address of the root partition on your drive(s). It'll look something like this:
Code:
image=/mnt/slackware/boot/vmlinuz-xx.xx.xx
        label="Slackware"
        root=/dev/path to physical root partition
        initrd=/mnt/slackware/boot/grub/initrd.slack
        read-only
Where vmlinuz-xx.xx.xx represents the version number specific to your slackware image file.

Save lilo.conf, then in your console as root run lilo:
# /sbin/lilo (or it might accept just lilo)
Reboot.
Job done.
If you get any errors, (kernel panic - no initrd found) is the most common)) then you have the PATH to the initrd file incorrect.

This method works for nearly all other Linux distro's... Multiboot away!!

Last edited by pongmaster; 03-04-2005 at 06:16 PM.
 
Old 03-31-2005, 12:42 AM   #3
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Thanks that really helped me out. I found out the day after i first put the thread out that somehow the slackware partition had been formatted. I haven't really had time to do it, but i did it the reverse way and had to find mandrake on slackware. Anyways, thanks.
 
Old 04-01-2005, 08:09 AM   #4
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I have a question about dual booting two different linux distros.

Can you share swap files?

I heard you can but I'm not sure. That would save a little space.

Now that I think about it could you also share a /home partition ?

That would really save some space......

Any ideas on that.

I just very curious.........
 
  


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