rhaynes Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 Hi, I currently have a dual boot win xp and mandrake 10.0 official distribution. Win xp is on the first partition. What I would like to do is to delete the win xp partition and create partitions (using that space) for testing of mandrake 2006. The 2006 installer easily allows me to delete the win xp partition. But when I begin to add partitions for 2006 it gives me a message saying that partitions will be renumbered. My plan was to install 2006 but not the bootloader (I use lilo in mandrake 10.0). Then I would just boot to mandrake 10.0 and edit the lilo.conf file to add an extry for the 2006 boot. But if the partitions get renumbered during the 2006 install will I be able to boot to the old distribution? What is the best way to go about this? Thanks, R Haynes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
polemicz Posted October 7, 2005 Report Share Posted October 7, 2005 don't worry about the numbering. when you install you can put the bootlader on your root partition instead of the mbr then boot into your old mandriva and add the 2006 line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
harry Posted October 8, 2005 Report Share Posted October 8, 2005 I agree, I deleted a partition and mandriva handled renumbering the partitions without a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rhaynes Posted October 9, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 Hi, thanks for your replies. So Mandriva will handle the renumbering fine, but will I have to boot 10.0 with the rescue disk (passing root=/dev/newslash --- since the parition number has changed) and then edit lilo.conf and fstab? It won't do this automatically will it? Thanks, R Haynes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted October 9, 2005 Report Share Posted October 9, 2005 No, it is not automatic. But, if you install 2006, it will find the other Mandriva installation and it should add it to the boot loader just fine. Go ahead and install the new bootloader. Otherwise, if it doesn't, all you have to do is simply boot the new Mandriva and edit the lilo.conf and the fstab (for your mounted partitions at boot) The new lilo.conf file can be edited to default boot your Mandriva 10. Mandriva 2006 is really nice. Your going to go to it all the time! If you're really paranoid, copy your current lilo.conf to your /home directory and edit it there. Then you copy the edited version after you reboot. Don't forget to run lilo -v if you make any edits to lilo.conf. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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