Guest behmoth Posted July 18, 2003 Report Share Posted July 18, 2003 HI all : i am dual booting win2000 and redhat 9 ,i have an extra 5 GB free space and i really wanna try mandrake 9.1 , will this triple boot work , and with which bootloader ? and which is easier , to install redhat first then mandrake or the other way round , thanks in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ixthusdan Posted July 18, 2003 Report Share Posted July 18, 2003 Grub and lilo both will boot more than 2 os. I know for a fact three, because that is what I currently run. You just don't install the boot loader when the time comes, and edit the appropriate file for your added os. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdg Posted July 18, 2003 Report Share Posted July 18, 2003 Have a look at this FAQ You could also search this forum for "multiboot" or "tripleboot" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
static Posted July 18, 2003 Report Share Posted July 18, 2003 Do you want to keep your RH grub or use mandrake's lilo? Both look nice, both work for every os. What I would do is write down everything in your RH's /boot/grub/grub.conf (or menu.lst - whichever your grub is using) Then make sure mandrake's lilo automatically sets up the same things. For instance - If in grub you have kernel (hd0,1)/boot/bzImage acpi=on hdc=ide-scsi then you'll need acpi=on, hdc=ide-scsi in your lilo.conf. ;) They both work! Mind you... I found it more of a pain to get mandrake to boot with my gentoo's grub than the other way around, but your milage may vary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest tezca Posted July 23, 2003 Report Share Posted July 23, 2003 step 1 make a boot disk step2 install other linux distro step3 boot into whatever os you want the bootloader to run from step 4 cp the kernel from the boot disk and the initrd.img to the /boot directory IMPORTANT!!!!!!! rename the images to something else beside thier defaults if they dont have any "numbers" or "distro" info you dont want to overwrite your other os'es kernel & initrd example # cd /mnt/floppy # cp initrd.img /boot/initrd-2.4.20-RH.img same goes for the system.map and "vmlinuz" file final step update your bootloader! reboot _____________________________________________________________ my config MSI K7T AMD Duron 1 GHz 1536 mb pc133-sdram boot loader Grub os'es Sun Solaris 9 intel version Mandrake 9 RedHat 9 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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