[Tfug] Dual boot

[Keith Smith]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Paul Scott" <waterhorse@ultrasw.com>
To: <tfug@tfug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 9:30 PM
Subject: Re: [Tfug] Dual boot


> 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.
>

Point well taken.  The Debian lilo is only to load Debian and only
loads on the Debian partition.

Thanks for your help.

Keith


> Paul
>
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