[CS-FSLUG] More than one distro

[Frank Bax]

At 01:37 PM 1/23/06, Wade A Smith wrote:


>On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 12:00:01 -0500 Christiansource-request at ofb.biz
>writes:
> >
> > At 08:35 AM 1/23/06, Wade A Smith wrote:
> > >How do I put Xandros on or be able to boot Xandros alternatively?
> > >Set the boot sequence to boot from SATA drive and then change the
> > boot
> > >sequence to boot from the Xandros HD?
> >
> >
> > Not sure what you are referring to here.  You set your bios to boot
> > from
> > one drive; then configure grub or lilo (Linux boot managers) on that
> > drive
> > to present a list of available OS's to boot from.
>
>If I set up this way (boot from SATA drive):
>
>SATA0
>         WinXP (100GB)
>         SuSE10.0 (400GB)
>IDE0
>         Xandros (40GB)
>IDE1
>         FAT32 (40GB)
>         linux /local (40GB)
>
>You are saying that I could tell grub to boot from
>  1 SATA Linux
>  2 SATA MonkeySoft
>  3 IDE0 Xandros
>
>Can I do this?


It should be doable (I've done something similar, but it was lilo and some 
time ago); whether or not *you* can do it remains to be seen ;)