Multiple Booting

[badale]

I have an HP computer with Windows XP using NTFS pre-installed that incorporates an OS recovery partition at the beginning of the hard drive. I use Partition-Magic to partition the 60 Gb HDD allocating 10 Gb to XP, 10 Gb to Mandrake 9, and 10 Gb to Redhat 8, leaving the available balance presently unallocated. I chose to use LILO instead of Grubb, which allows me to boot into XP or Mandrake, but have to resort to a floppy to boot Redhat. I now wish to install Debian 3, giving me a choice of 4 OSs so that I have XP available whilst I experiment with the different Linux Distro's and hopefully learn enough to settle for just Debian. My problem is that I'd like to be able to boot all systems from the HDD but do not know if this is possible. I have tried using Boot-Magic after creating a 50 Mb DOS partition but this doesn't work because I think, of the 1024 cylinder rule! Can anyone please advise me whether or not there is a solution?

Bernard Dale

[rid3r]

i think it's rather "more than 4 primary partitions" rule :), take a look at your Partition Magic Help.

[mdwatts]

Just add appropriate sections to your /etc/lilo.conf to boot Redhat and Debian. Don't forget to run /sbin/lilo (as root) after.

By searching the LNO forums, you should be able to find plenty of /etc/lilo.conf examples to help with setting up Lilo for multiboot.

[jetblackz]

Funny I have been multi-booting 2+ Linux distros & 2+ Windows versions no problem using lilo and NTFS.

http://jetblackz.freeservers.com/ConfiguringMultiBooting.html