Author: Stephen P. Schaefer
Email: stephen@networks.com
Web Page: http://www.networks.com
Date Submitted: Tue, Jan 20, 1998
Status: New Entry

Releases: 5.0
Platform: intel
Category:  Booting and LILO
Category Listing:  With multiple partitions, how can I boot after an install?

Issue

The RH 5.0 install can fail to boot if you tell it about alternate 
bootable partitions. There also doesn't appear to be any way to 
make anything but the lowest numbered bootable partition the 
default boot OS. 

Response

During the install, describe your partitions accurately, but don't 
set any of them to boot except the RH root filesystem. Once you 
come up, edit /etc/lilo.conf to describe your other bootable 
partitions and rerun lilo. Be careful with /etc/lilo.conf! If in 
doubt, read the lilo man page 

References

http://www.redhat.com/linux-info/ldp/HOWTO/mini/LILO.html