The Trio OS

[Dark Ninja]

Well, I'm thinking about creating another Linux partition on my hard drive and then having Windows ME, Mandrake, and Slackware on my system.

What I'm wondering is that - can I just edit the lilo.conf file under Slackware or Mandrake and then run lilo in order to get my booting process to allow me to use either one? As far as I can tell, this would work, because I boot from /dev/hda which lilo writes to from either Slackware or Mandrake.

Any insight is good.


Dark Ninja

[bdl]

Choose one distro to control the boot process, let's say Slackware. When doing the installs, do Win first, then with the Mandrake install, install MDK's LILO to it's root partition rather than the MBR, and finally Slackware, installing to the MBR. Reboot into Slackware and create a /etc/lilo.conf file like so:


# slackware /etc/lilo.conf file
# example only

boot=/dev/hda
lba32

install=/boot/boot-menu.b

prompt
timeout=600
default=linux
vga=normal

# windows
other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
table=/dev/hda

# mandrake
other=/dev/hda2
label=mandrake
table=/dev/hda

# slackware
image=/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda3
read-only

# eof


Run '/sbin/lilo' and youre set. The Slackware LILO will install to the MBR, controlling Windows, Slackware and giving Mandrake control of it's own LILO install, which is installed to /dev/hda2. Luck!