[CLUE-Tech] Using LILO for multiple versions of Linux on same drive

[John Kottal]

Thanx for your help: it now works as advertised.

I think my problem arose when I read the man page and assumed that other distros of
Linux would be handled in a manner similar to that of Windows, i.e., the partition
needn't be mounted to boot.

However, this is not the case with other Linux distros and the vmlinuz kernel must
be accessible to LILO as you indicate.

Once I did what you suggested, it works fine and I can now boot into either distro
from the hard disk.

John Kottal

Lynn Danielson wrote:

> John Kottal wrote:
> > How do I configure my system to allow selection of multiple versions of Linux on
> the same hard drive?
>
> I would do this by copying the kernels from all of your different Linux
> installations to the /boot directory from which booting won't be a problem.
> Rename  them if necessary.  Add stanzas to your lilo.conf file for those other
> kernels, etc., etc.