On Mon, Mar 03 '03 at 11:01, Thomas Gebhardt wrote: > I'd like to install several linux distributions on one disk > in a multiboot environment, each of them accessing the data > in a LVM 1.x volume group. I did that with TSL1.5, TSL2.0 and RH8.0 on one box: - partition harddrive: hda1: 256M ext2 /boot hda2: 2G ext2 / # see below hda3: rest LVM - than I install TSL1.5 into hda2 - install the LVM tools - pvcreate hda3 - vgcreate vg00 hda3 - lvcreate -n tsl15root -L 1G vg00 - move tsl1.5 into tsl15root - fix initrd (I'v a special initrd that activates LVM/MD and comes with a busybox based rescue system) - fix lilo - shutdown, reboot new setup make sure it works - install TSL2.0 into hda2 - install lvmtools - vgscan - vgchange -a y - lvcreate -n tsl20root -L 1G vg00 - move tsl2.0 into tsl20root - fix initrd - fix lilo - shutdown, reboot, test - install TH80 into hda2 - install lvmtoold - vgscan - vgchange -a y - lvcreate -n rh80root -L 1G vg00 - move rh80 into rh80root - fix initrd - fix lilo - shutdown, reboot, test quite simple. boot gets a little bit messy, but I like to have /boot on a primary partition and not on LVM. -- Goetz Bock (c) 2003 as blacknet.de - Munich - Germany /"\ IT Consultant GNU FDL 1.1 secure mobile Linux everNETting \ / X ASCII Ribbon Campaign against HTML email & microsoft attachments / \ _______________________________________________ linux-lvm mailing list linux-lvm@sistina.com http://lists.sistina.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-lvm read the LVM HOW-TO at http://tldp.org/HOWTO/LVM-HOWTO/