System Setup: Linux and Booting

1998-xx-xx I originally used Partition Magic to set up the partitions on hda, and to install the OS/2 Boot Manager. Made the Win95 the default, with WinNT and Linux as options. Had to keep the boot process on the 1st drive (below 1024 cylinders), so I'm letting redhat's lilo handle the two linux installs. If linux is chosen from the OS2 boot manager's menu, it runs the lilo at hda8.

1999-04-30 Ready for a disk and a new distro, so SUSE 6.1 goes onto /dev/hdb. Now booting Win95, WinNT, RH 5.1 and SUSE 6.1.

1999-10-01 Upgraded RH to 6.1. Using it for little more than a kickstarter for the SUSE installation. lilo took over the Master Boot Record (MBR), so I installed win95 as the "other" install.

1999-12-18 Upgraded SUSE to 6.3. Win95 and WinNT partitions are toasted -- and I don't miss them. After upgrading to SUSE6.3 on /dev/hdb, I copied the /boot/vmlinuz /mnt/redhat/boot/vmlinuz-suse-2.2.13, and modified the lilo.conf.

2000-03-13 Upgraded RH to 6.2, primarily to prove I can (I was getting a RH 6.2 system at work). Beginning to steal RH's "/usr/local" partition for SUSE activities.

2000-07-17 Upgraded SUSE to 6.4. Wanted to get the back-patched USB support, since I got a USB scanner for X-mas, and it was still in the box.

2000-07-17 After upgrading to SUSE6.4 on this /dev/hdb, I copied the /boot/vmlinuz to /mnt/redhat/boot/vmlinuz-suse-2.2.14, and modified the redhat lilo.conf to default to suse64 and that vmlinuz. Then booted to redhat61 and ran its lilo.

Current Configuration

/mnt/redhat/etc/lilo.conf

boot = /dev/hda
timeout = 50
prompt
  default = suse64
  vga = normal
  read-only
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
  label = rh61
  initrd = /boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
  root = /dev/hda8
image = /boot/vmlinuz-suse-2.2.14
  label = suse64
  root = /dev/hdb1
other = /dev/hda1
  label = win95

/etc/rc.config
See: /etc/rc.config

Creator: Harry George
Updated/Created: 2001-01-07

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