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