Re: Q. re. dual-boot of 2 Linux OS's - esp. re. LILO

From: JohnInSD At san DOT rr dot COM (bitbucket_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/14/04 

Date: Sun, 14 Nov 2004 15:00:32 GMT

On Sun, 14 Nov 2004 00:01:55 -0600, "Scruffy Eagle" <this_cant@be.spammed>
wrote:

>>From your instruction re. mounting, I have the impression you were writing
>the stanzas based on me modifying the lilo.conf from the hda2 Debian
>partition. If I can, I'd prefer to stick with using the copy installed into
>the hda3 Knoppix partition, because it's already got all the stuff in place
>for using the bitmap menu screen. (I just like the way it looks, as vs.
>simple text console menu...) You specified I'd need the /kop partition
>mounted, so I'm guessing that means to do it from hda3 I'd need to attend to
>having the hda2 Debian partition mounted before running/writing the LILO.
>Thanks again, for your assistance! I'm going to try to apply the new info
>tonight.
>
>Scruffy
>http://scruffyeagle.com
>
>

I wrote from the Debian perspective, as I am more familiar with their release,
as their maintainers stay in e-mail contact with me. The Koppix point-of-view
should work correspondingly well. I would make the choice based upon which
distro provides the more recent version of LILO (Debian is up to 22.5.9 with
their latest update; Koppix I don't know about; 22.6 is the current release,
which includes a couple of updates suggested by the folks at Debian).

The binary file /sbin/lilo should be completely interchangeable between the
two distros (subject to the version of glibc with which it is linked.)

--John

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