On Wednesday 27 October 2004 02:36 am, Eben King wrote:
> On Tue, 26 Oct 2004 20:49:18 -0400, steve szmidt <steve@szmidt.org> wrote:
> > On Tuesday 26 October 2004 07:37 pm, Caleb wrote:
> >> I am currently running both Xandros
> >> Business 2.5 Linux and XP on a laptop. I have partitioned the drive for
> >> another distro of linux (Fedora 2). My problem is that last time I
> >> tried to triple boot I was only able to see Fedora and XP. My ultimate
> >> choice is to have :
> >>
> >> Fedora 2
> >> Xandros 2.5
> >> XP
> >>
> >> In that order. I believe that xandros installs Lilo. I also read that
> >> Fedora defaults to Grub, but can use Lilo also.
>
> If the Fedora installer asks you, tell it to install _no_ bootloader,
> otherwise you'll have two config files (one in Fedora and one in Xandros),
> and the one in Xandros will know of it and XP and so will the one in
> Fedora.
I don't agree with this. Because having it can help you later when you want to
look up something. You will only have one bootloader in the bootsector anyway
so nothing bad comes out of it. Again I recommend you stick with grub. Which
would require you to install Fedora last.
> >> My question is how to do this?
>
> Once you install Fedora, mount its "/" (or "/boot" if it has one),
> read-only if you like, duplicate an existing section in /etc/lilo.conf so
> it looks something like this:
>
> default=xandros
>
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-whatever-you-have-for-xandros
> label=Xandros
> initrd=/boot/initrd-ditto.img
> read-only
> root=/dev/wherever-xandros-is
>
> image=/mnt/temp/boot/vmlinuz-whatever-you-have-for-fedora
> label=fedora
> initrd=/mnt/temp/boot/initrd-ditto.img
> read-only
> root=/dev/wherever-fedora-is
>
> other=/dev/wherever-windows-is
> label=Win_XP
>
> There may be another way, where you tell the Fedora installer that you DO
> want a bootloader, but installed in the partition, not the hard drive's
> master boot record, and it shouldn't be dual-boot, but I've never done
> that.
>
> > The swap can be shared.
>
> Data for "suspend to disk" (or whatever it's called) is written by default
> to a partition (swap is usually chosen, unless you like overwriting your
> filesystems). If you plan on using that, you need separate swaps, unless
> you know a way around it.
>
> > I prefer grub over lilo as it's more flexible. Like being able to modify
> > the
> > boot script on the fly.
>
> So I've heard.
--Steve Szmidt
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