Dual boot with 2 hd's

[martin]

Would I need two boot partitions,1 for each OS? Or can they share?
Also, what would be the best way to configure lilo?
Main OS is Slackware 8.1, second is going to be Gentoo 1.4_rc4.

[coltrane]

Something like this:

boot = /dev/hda
vga = 771
read-only
lba32
prompt
timeout = 80
message = /boot/message

image = /boot/vmlinuz
label = Slackware8.1
root = /dev/hda2                #or wherever it is
initrd = /boot/initrd

image = /hdb1/vmlinuz
label = Gentoo1.4_rc4
root = /dev/hdb2                  #or wherever it is
initrd = /boot/initrd.gentoo
optional

image = /boot/memtest.bin
label = memtest86