Re: Can I have multiple Linux distros on one hard disk?

From: Cacique (cacique83_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 01/31/05 

Date: Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:49:13 +0900

"Bit Twister"
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2005 13:11:49 +0900, Cacique wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I was just wondering if it's possible to have more than one Linux distro
on
> > the same hard disk, and boot each of them using a boot-loader like Lilo
or
> > Grub.
>
> Yes. just create a swap partition for use by all distros. Then a
> partition for each install.
>
> I use lilo, and select a mbr install. I then mount the other
> partitions, cut/paste a boot stanza into lilo.conf and run lilo to
> install the change.
>
> Example for mandrake 10.0 Official Edition and redhat's FC3:
> image=/md10oe/boot/vmlinuz
> label="md10oe"
> root=/dev/hdb9
> initrd=/md10oe/boot/initrd.img
> append="devfs=mount acpi=force resume=/dev/hdb1 splash=0"
> vga=788
> read-only
>
> image=/fc3/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.9-1.667
> label=FC3
> initrd=/fc3/boot/initrd-2.6.9-1.667.img
> read-only
> append="root=LABEL=/"

Excellent! Thanks.

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