[Tfug] Dual boot

[Paul Scott]

Keith Smith wrote:
> Glen, Paul,Yan,Chris
> 
> Thanks for your help.
> 
> I found the simplest way to correct the problem being I had done some
> install was to,
> 
> 1) Rescue into Mandrake and update lilo with other=/dev/hde8 and
> another line label=Debian.  Then I ran lilo.  A reboot and I was able
> to boot into Mandrake and Win2000.
> 2) Rescue into Debian and modified the boot=/dev/hda to
> boot=/dev/hda8. Then I ran lilo.
> 
> After rebooting I was able to select Win2000, Mandrake, and Debian
> from the lilo prompt.

I'm glad you got it work and:

That probably means that your Debian lilo.conf accurately describes your 
various boot sectors and your Mandrake may not.  I don't recommend 
having two lilo.conf's unless one of them only describes a local 
partition that the main one doesn't.  It's not a good idea to have 
redundant data unless it is automatically mirrored.  If you now run lilo 
from your Mandrake system you could mess up what you did when you ran 
lilo on your Debian system.

Paul