On Sat, 20 Sep 2003, Balajee C wrote:
Next LUG meet: 11 Oct 2003 around 4 pm - VJTI Mech Dept
Hi all, I tried google, and the suggestion i got after going through some sites, is to install the third OS and not install ny boot loader but use a boot disk to boot the third OS.
will try this out and post my experience..
I guess the limitation should be the hdd size that you have. At present I have winduhs, RH 9, Debian woody, Slackware 9, and knoppix 3.2 on a 40 g hdd (of which I can only use 32 G --limitation of bios :( ) And this is just my primary master. Primary slave has winduhs, RH 8 (on two partitions) and debian. I intend adding mandrake and maybe freebsd.
For me, grub will not boot a distro from a logical partition but lilo will. It will even boot a distro on the second hdd.
Here's my fdisk output:
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Disk /dev/hda: 33.8 GB, 33820286976 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 4111 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hda1 1 319 2562336 c Win95 FAT32 (LBA) /dev/hda2 * 320 957 5124735 83 Linux /dev/hda3 958 1595 5124735 83 Linux /dev/hda4 1596 4111 20209770 5 Extended /dev/hda5 1596 1627 257008+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hda6 1628 2010 3076416 83 Linux /dev/hda7 2011 2393 3076416 83 Linux /dev/hda8 2394 2776 3076416 83 Linux /dev/hda9 2777 3159 3076416 83 Linux /dev/hda10 3160 3542 3076416 83 Linux /dev/hda11 3543 4111 4570461 82 Linux swap
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Disk /dev/hdb: 9115 MB, 9115361280 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 1108 cylinders Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 = 8225280 bytes
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System /dev/hdb1 1 192 1542208+ b Win95 FAT32 /dev/hdb2 * 193 479 2305327+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb3 480 766 2305327+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb4 767 1108 2747115 5 Extended /dev/hdb5 767 782 128488+ 82 Linux swap /dev/hdb6 783 946 1317298+ 83 Linux /dev/hdb7 947 1108 1301233+ 83 Linux
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hth,
sharukh.