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Help me!!!! - Slackware 12 Issue - Invalid Partition table
Post 302376113 by Reeman on Monday 30th of November 2009 04:49:53 PM
11-30-2009
Study up on boot loaders and partitioning.
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Both the times i have installed the LILO which was provided with slackware. Do i need to try without installing LILO from slack and go with the bootloader provided by fedora?
I want to have Win XP, Fedora and slackware in my PC (80 GB ).
Thanks for reading till end
Both the times i have installed the LILO which was provided with slackware. Do i need to try without installing LILO from slack and go with the bootloader provided by fedora?
I want to have Win XP, Fedora and slackware in my PC (80 GB ).
Thanks for reading till end
You need to install grub in slackware not lilo in this case.. to the root directory of your slackware install and then edit /boot/grub/grub.config in Fedora to have your slackware install show up in the boot menu in grub so that when you boot your computer with grub there will be three separate os boot options available.
You will most likely have to put grub back in the boot sector of your harddrive using the correct command as root in Fedora to make all this work correctly.
With your setup and one HDD you can have 4 primary partitions and use them the way you need to, so running three operating systems is possible without having to setup an extended partition table.
There is no reason to create two different swap partitions as both versions of linux can and will use the same swap area you set aside on your drive.
I would strongly suggest getting a second HDD if you want to run 3 Oses, though, as the benefits of having your swap and /root on different drives are substantial if you want your linux installs to really smoke because you can swap and run from different drives at the same time.
My good old dual p111 compact server setup uses a single swap on one small size scsi (6 gig), Slackware (15 gig) on one, Zenwalk on another (10 gig) and XP pro on the first IDE channel...all with no conflicts or trouble.
Best of luck and don't give up!
Eric
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