So I am here will performance how to build more Linux-like on you computer as my Lenovo laptop T61 individually .the same method will happen on others .so what should we need to check whether hardware support your Linux Distribution from website .I just test on Lenovo T61,so need you guys confirm by yourself or share here together.
First,make purpose what Linux-like do you want to play and how much volume does your storage.try to use command to list them after sliting ,view mine as following.
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[root@steven ~]# fdisk -l
Disk /dev/sda: 120.0 GB, 120034123776 bytes
240 heads, 63 sectors/track, 15505 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 15120 * 512 = 7741440 bytes
Disk identifier: 0x13dbf84d
Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/sda1 * 1 2868 21682048+ 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/sda2 2869 15505 95535720 f W95 Ext'd (LBA)
/dev/sda5 2869 6931 30716248+ b W95 FAT32
/dev/sda6 6932 9641 20474811 83 Linux
/dev/sda7 9641 10195 4192933+ 82 Linux swap / Solaris
/dev/sda8 10195 11821 12289693+ 83 Linux
[root@steven ~]#
comment:
/dev/sda1 is Windows Xp system with NTFS format
/dev/sda2 is extend volume of my disk
/dev/sda5 is my first logical disk on WindowsXP system with fat format(how to distinguish the label of disk on Linux ,you guys should search documentation on network manually)
/dev/sda6 is my Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 5.1 on laptop
/dev/sda7 is swap partition for every Linux
/dev/sda8 is Fodera 9
so when you modify partition for different Linux distribution before Linux installation,so it's very easy to do it I think.
Okay ,when you install the first system is Windows ,then the boot sequence will be modified on MBR,then continue to install Linux on another partition ,the grub will modify the MBR again (of course you can install grub onto anther partition is okay),so not lucky gurb just can save the last Linux-like system boot setting without saving all of them ,so you need to do modification manually.
first you have to check out which partition your Linux installed ,then modify it easily like mine /dev/sda6 is my Redhat Enterprise Linux Server 5.1 on laptop so I just make sure grub could find it on correct partition then it will boot from that partition,specially the number of your partition should reduce
monadic operator ,for example change sda6 to (hd0,5) when you try to set boot Parameter value as following:
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# kernel /boot/vmlinuz-version ro root=/dev/sda8
# initrd /boot/initrd-version.img
#boot=/dev/sda
default=0
timeout=5
splashimage=(hd0,7)/boot/grub/splash.xpm.gz
hiddenmenu
title Fedora (2.6.25-14.fc9.i686)
root (hd0,7)
kernel /boot/vmlinuz-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686 ro root=UUID=aa7a1f24-2b4d-488c-9cc1-18fdde6cb46b rhgb quiet
initrd /boot/initrd-2.6.25-14.fc9.i686.img
title Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server (2.6.18-8.el5xen)
root (hd0,7)
kernel (hd0,5)/boot/xen.gz-2.6.18-8.el5
module (hd0,5)/boot/vmlinuz-2.6.18-8.el5xen ro root=LABEL=/12 rhgb quiet
module (hd0,5)/boot/initrd-2.6.18-8.el5xen.img
title Windows-xp
rootnoverify (hd0,0)
chainloader +1
save them and reboot your Linux you will find it finally and boot different Linux distribution.
