[olug] howto boot multiple linux partitions?

[Bill Brush]

I'd like to offer another option (besides grub and lilo).  I bought a boot
manager from sadevelopment.com called Partition Boot Manager.  It loads
itself (in its entirety) into the first cylinder of the drive.  It's
completely OS independent and has options for hiding and sharing partitions
between different boot partitions.  The software claims that it can support
up to 255 boot partitions on one hard drive.

I've been using it for a couple of years and I really like it.  It's cheap
($25) and the guy has been great for tech support.

Bill

olug-bounces at olug.org wrote on 02/15/2004 10:51:31 PM:

> When you installed suse, you should of installed the boot loader on the
> partition ( /dev/hda7 ) instead of not at all.... this way when you told
> lilo under knoppix to try the loader on /dev/hda7 there was actually a
> bootstap loader there...
>
> or, from knoppix
>
> mount /dev/hda7 somewhere
> edit /etc/lillo.conf
> and basically duplicate your knoppix entries pointing to whereever you
> mounted /dev/hda7.
>
>
> the main difference between grub and lilo is grub only loads itself into
the
> bootsector and from there knows how to read filesystems natively and
loads
> the kernel straight from disk.
> lilo on the other hand loads not only its own bootloader, but also the
> kernel ( and initrd if needed ) into the boot sector ( which is why you
have
> to re-run lilo after installing new kernels )
>
>
>
> what you are trying to do is definately doable with lilo - a few
different
> ways - grub just exposes this possibility better.
>