LILO Dual boot problem

Keith Mastin kmastin-PzQIwG9Jn9VAFePFGvp55w at public.gmane.org
Mon Oct 6 22:44:40 UTC 2003


>> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 08:59:04PM -0400, Keith Mastin wrote:
>>
>>>mmmm... using FreeBSD -style partitions and slices, I would say yes,
>>> but with linux I would say use dedicated hard drives per distro.
>>> Otherwise, there are naming problems (both systems need independant /
>>> filesystems, etc.).
>>
>> And how ever do you figure you need to hardhdisks to keep a seperate
>> root partition for each distribution?  That is just silly.
>>
>> Lennart Sorensen
>
> Now now Lennart!
>
>    I thought the same thing might be necesary when I first set out to
> dual-boot Linux... Some of us are still relatively new to Linux and are
> still wrapping our heads around it's (wounderful) girth. :) Keith though
>  might not wanted to have spoken with such authority though before
> knowing for sure.

Ouch. I didn't think of the fstab or boot parameters. Not a dual boot type.
:)


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