LILO Dual boot problem

[Jim Ruxton]

I'm curious. When you are booting 2 different versions of Linux do you have
to install those packages that are common to both distributions twice or can
you share files between the 2 distributions.
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Madison Kelly" <linux-5ZoueyuiTZhBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org>
To: <tlug-HcP7FbCj2GFAfugRpC6u6w at public.gmane.org>
Sent: Thursday, October 02, 2003 6:13 PM
Subject: [TLUG]: LILO Dual boot problem


> Hi all,
>
>   I have setup on my system Win2k, RH9.0 and Mandrake 9.1 (installed in
> the order). Now I am currently booting with the Mandrake-installed boot
> loader but I want to switch back to the vanilla (or Redhat) version of
> lilo. Can someone tell me how to do this? When I try typing '# lilo'
> after updating '/etc/lilo.conf' (from RH9) I get this error:
>
> Fatal: /boot/message is too big (> 65535 bytes)
>
>   Thanks for any help!
>
> PS - I tried sending this to 'tlug-lxSQFCZeNF4 at public.gmane.org' but it seemed to have
> disappeared. Sorry if this later ends up as a dup. :)
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