SuSE 8.2 and 9.0 on the same computer
Know that in the past instructions were discussed about installing a new version next to an old. Tried to find postings on this subject but failed. Can somebody give me a short outline about the process?
Constant Brouerius van Nidek skrev:
Know that in the past instructions were discussed about installing a new version next to an old. Tried to find postings on this subject but failed.
Can somebody give me a short outline about the process?
While the SuSE Linux installations create a dual boot for Windows and Linux, it doesn't look to handle multiple Linux distros correspondingly. This is how I have created diskslices for my five working OS, installed and preserved in the following (historical) order on the same workstation: 1. Windows 98 (/dev/hda6) 2. Windows 2000 Pro (dev/hda5) 3. Redhat 9 (/dev/hda8) 4. SuSE Linux 9.0 Pro (/dev/hda10) 5. Sun Java Desktop System (SJDSK based on SuSE8) (/dev/hda11) I apply a common Linux swap disk partition (/dev/hda1) for all Linux distros 3-5, and separate root disk partitions as shown. I got no problem when I rezised a NTFS partition and created /dev/hda10 and /dev/hda11 with Linux partition program. However, on another installation, when I rezised and splitted a reiser partition correspondingly, SuSE9 didn't longer find X11 and couldn't start KDE. I don't know if this really caused the problem, which I solved by reinstalling SuSe9. So to the multiboot configuration file: 2) The Win2k installation created a dualboot for 1+2 3) RH9 installation with Grub bootloader created a dualboot for (1+2)+3 4) SuSE9 installation created a dual boot for (1+2)+4 5) SJDS installation created a dualboot for (1+2)+5 My tips is to mount the previous Linux root disk partition, copy&paste between the previous and current /boot/grub/menu.lst configuration files. As an example, here follows a copy of my edited SJDS/GRUB menu.lst: gfxmenu (hd0,10)/boot/message color white/blue black/light-gray default 0 timeout 10 title Sun Java Desktop System 1.0 (2.4.19-4GB) kernel (hd0,10)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda11 acpi=off hdc=ide-scsi vga=791 initrd (hd0,10)/boot/initrd title SuSE Linux 9.0 Professional (2.4.21 opt.) kernel (hd0,9)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda10 vga=0x317 splash=silent desktop hdc=ide-scsi hdclun=0 showopts initrd (hd0,9)/boot/initrd title Red Hat Linux 9.0 (2.4.20-8) root (hd0,7) kernel /vmlinuz-2.4.20-8 ro root=LABEL=/ hdc=ide-scsi initrd /initrd-2.4.20-8.img title Windows root (hd0,1) makeactive chainloader +1 title Failsafe Sun Java Desktop System 1.0 (2.4.19-4GB) kernel (hd0,10)/boot/vmlinuz.shipped root=/dev/hda11 ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd0,10)/boot/initrd.shipped title Failsafe SuSE Linux 9.0 Professional (2.4.21 opt.) kernel (hd0,9)/boot/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda10 showopts ide=nodma apm=off acpi=off vga=normal nosmp noapic maxcpus=0 3 initrd (hd0,9)/boot/initrd title Memory Test SuSE Linux 9.0 Professional (2.4.21 opt.) kernel (hd0,9)/boot/memtest.bin
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Constant Brouerius van Nidek
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Terje J. Hanssen