[Sussex] Multiple Linux disks

Thu Apr 14 18:14:38 UTC 2005

Brendan

On Thu, Apr 14, 2005 at 03:43:10PM +0100, Brendan Whelan wrote:
> In my development system I have two versions of Fedora and one of RedHat 8,
> each on it's own SCSI disk. To switch between the systems I shutdown and
> then connect the appropriate drive before restarting. Is there a simple way
> to have all disks connected as, say, SCSI 0, SCSI 1 and SCSI 2 and to select
> which I want to use at boot time.

Yes you can.  The boot program (lilo or grub) supports multipe installs
and can be configured to offer you a number of options at boot time.

Which boot loader are you using?

Steve
-- 
I never did it that way before.
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