multiple linux installs

[Romeyn Prescott]

>
>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?

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Have you seen the docs at:

http://www.yellowdoglinux.com/support/solutions/ydl_general/multiboot.shtml

?

Basically, after editing /etc/yaboot.conf to show an entry for your 
debian install, run /usr/sbin/ybin and reboot.  yaboot should then 
let you choose.

...ROMeyn
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