multiple linux installs

[Mark T. Valites]

Alright SUNY!!

I have setup as described below:
	two / partitions
	one /home (shared between the two)
	one bootstrap
	one swap

When I installed the secondary distro (debian in this case), I choose not
to make it boot directly off the hard drive, so that it would't crunch the
previosly existing "MBR- equivalent" in the existing bootstrap parition
from yellowdog.  If I edit the yaboot.conf from yellowdog to point to the
debian / parition, how will it know to boot debian?  There's no
"lilo-equiv" installed in that partition...

Do I have to use a kernel from the yellowdog side & pass "root=/dev/xxx"
args to it to get the debian side to boot?


On Fri, 29 Mar 2002, Romeyn Prescott wrote:

> Date: Fri, 29 Mar 2002 11:25:51 -0500
> From: Romeyn Prescott <prescor@digirom.potsdam.edu>
> Reply-To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> To: yellowdog-general@lists.terrasoftsolutions.com
> Subject: Re: multiple linux installs
>
> >
> >So, I'd like to have YD & woody sit on the same drive together.  I've
> >booted multiple distros in the x86 world with lilo plenty of times.
> >Normally I install lilo to the root (/) partition of the 1st install, and
> >install it to the MBR from the 2nd install, with a "other" stanz
> >pointing to the 1st install's root partition.
> >
> >The PPC world kinda threw me with the bootstrap partition and yaboot.  I'm
> >not sure what is required, and what the equivalent of what I'm trying to
> >do above is.  Can any one shed some light on this for me?
> >
>
> Hi from a fellow SUNY IT guy!
>
> I would try (on a non-production unit, of course!) a single bootstrap
> partition, a single swap, and two / (as defined in the installers for
> each distro).
>
> Then modify /etc/yaboot.conf to point to the appropriate partition
> for each distro.
>
> That SHOULD work.  I think!  :-/
>
> I haven't yet decided to go the linux route on my PB G4, but I have
> it (YDL 2.1) running on a WallStreet PB G3 rather happily.
>
> ...ROMeyn
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