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> I have been using Red Hat 7.1 on a 6GB hard disk, and have
> downloaded Red Hat 7.2, which I would like to try before switching
> to it.

> I want eventually to be running a dual-boot Win98SE and Linux 7.2
> system, and so I installed Win98 and then RH72 on the 20 GB disk.

> The LILO.CONF from this new 20 GB disk is shown below:

> ----------------------------------
> # cat lilo.conf
> prompt
> timeout=50
> default=linux_rh72
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> message=/boot/message
> lba32

> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10
>    label=linux_rh72
>    initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-10.img
>    read-only
>    root=/dev/hda3

> other=/dev/hda1
>    optional
>    label=Win98SE
> -----------------------------------

> What I would like to do is to install my RH71 ( 6 GB hdd ) as a
> secondary drive and then to be able to "triple boot" into Win98,
> RH72 or my old RH71 at will, so that I can continue to do my
> day-to-day stuff on RH71 and play with RH72 until I am happy to
> switch to it permanently.

> I have a question about booting more than one version / installation
> of Linux on my Celeron 900 PC via LILO.

> I have been using Red Hat 7.1 on a 6GB hard disk, and have
> downloaded Red Hat 7.2, which I would like to try before switching
> to it.

> I want eventually to be running a dual-boot Win98SE and Linux 7.2
> system, and so I installed Win98 and then RH72 on the 20 GB disk.

> The LILO.CONF from this new 20 GB disk is shown below:

> ----------------------------------
> # cat lilo.conf
> prompt
> timeout=50
> default=linux_rh72
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> message=/boot/message
> lba32

> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10
>         label=linux_rh72
>         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-10.img
>         read-only
>         root=/dev/hda3

> other=/dev/hda1
>         optional
>         label=Win98SE
> -----------------------------------

> What I would like to do is to install my RH71 ( 6 GB hdd ) as a
> secondary drive and then to be able to "triple boot" into Win98,
> RH72 or my old RH71 at will, so that I can continue to do my
> day-to-day stuff on RH71 and play with RH72 until I am happy to
> switch to it permanently.

> I assume that I could do something like adding:

> ------------------------------------------
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.x,x,x-x
>         label=linux_rh71
>         initrd=/boot/initrd-2.x.x.x-x.img
>         read-only
>         root=/dev/hdb2
> -------------------------------------------

> (or similar) to my current LILO.CONF and running "lilo".

> Will this work?  And is this how I should go about it?  Any
> "GOTCHA's" I should beware of?

> Thanks in advance,
> Graham Daniell

> > I have been using Red Hat 7.1 on a 6GB hard disk, and have
> > downloaded Red Hat 7.2, which I would like to try before switching
> > to it.

> > I want eventually to be running a dual-boot Win98SE and Linux 7.2
> > system, and so I installed Win98 and then RH72 on the 20 GB disk.

> > The LILO.CONF from this new 20 GB disk is shown below:

> > ----------------------------------
> > # cat lilo.conf
> > prompt
> > timeout=50
> > default=linux_rh72
> > boot=/dev/hda
> > map=/boot/map
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > message=/boot/message
> > lba32

> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10
> >       label=linux_rh72
> >       initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-10.img
> >       read-only
> >       root=/dev/hda3

> > other=/dev/hda1
> >       optional
> >       label=Win98SE
> > -----------------------------------

> > What I would like to do is to install my RH71 ( 6 GB hdd ) as a
> > secondary drive and then to be able to "triple boot" into Win98,
> > RH72 or my old RH71 at will, so that I can continue to do my
> > day-to-day stuff on RH71 and play with RH72 until I am happy to
> > switch to it permanently.

> There are 2 ways to go about this.  Since I don't know where your LILO is
> for hdb, you could initially mount your /boot or / partition on RH7.2 and
> point to the vmlinuz and initrd (if needed) in the mounted path.  For this
> example I will assume that /boot is a subdir of /:

> mkdir /mnt/RH7.1
> mount /dev/hdb2 /mnt/RH7.1

> # Use the following in lilo.conf of RH7.2:
> image=/mnt/RH7.1/boot/vmlinuz-2.x,x,x-x
>         label=linux_rh71
>         initrd=/mnt/RH7.1/boot/initrd-2.x.x.x-x.img
>         read-only
>         root=/dev/hdb2

> Then run lilo.  Even though this path will not be mounted while LILO
> boots, it keeps track of the actual disk location of vmlinuz, etc.

> If you have a separate /boot partition, just change mount source above
> to that partition and omit 'boot' from the paths in lilo.conf.

> A better way for long term is to have LILO on a partition (primary or
> extended, not logical).  In fact this would even be a good idea for hda so
> you could have LILO on a partition and set that as the active boot
> partition with Linux or Win fdisk.  Then you could use a standard (Win)
> MBR and have to worry about Windows changing the MBR (although, I am
> unfamiliar with NT, 2K or XP).

> If you put LILO for RH7.1 on /dev/hdb2, the entry in lilo.conf of RH7.2
> would be more simply:

> other=/dev/hdb2
>         optional
>         label=linux_rh71

> You could replace RH7.1 with a different distro at any time, put the
> LILO for that on hdb2 and still boot it from the other LILO.  The optional
> would allow you to empty, remove or substitute a new drive without getting
> a lilo error.

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> I have been using Red Hat 7.1 on a 6GB hard disk, and have downloaded
> Red Hat 7.2, which I would like to try before switching to it.

> I want eventually to be running a dual-boot Win98SE and Linux 7.2
> system, and so I installed Win98 and then RH72 on the 20 GB disk.

> The LILO.CONF from this new 20 GB disk is shown below:

> ----------------------------------
> # cat lilo.conf
> prompt
> timeout=50
> default=linux_rh72
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> message=/boot/message
> lba32

> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10
>    label=linux_rh72
>    initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-10.img
>    read-only
>    root=/dev/hda3

> other=/dev/hda1
>    optional
>    label=Win98SE
> -----------------------------------

> What I would like to do is to install my RH71 ( 6 GB hdd ) as a
> secondary drive and then to be able to "triple boot" into Win98, RH72 or
> my old RH71 at will, so that I can continue to do my day-to-day stuff on
> RH71 and play with RH72 until I am happy to switch to it permanently.

> I assume that I could do something like adding:

> ------------------------------------------ image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.x,x,x-x
>    label=linux_rh71
>    initrd=/boot/initrd-2.x.x.x-x.img
>    read-only
>    root=/dev/hdb2
> -------------------------------------------

> (or similar) to my current LILO.CONF and running "lilo".

> Will this work?  And is this how I should go about it?  Any "GOTCHA's" I
> should beware of?

> Thanks in advance,
> Graham Daniell