Re: lilo as boot manager possible ?

[Lee Bradshaw <lee@sectionIV.com>]

This works for me:

freedom ~ $ sudo fdisk -l
Password:

Disk /dev/hda: 255 heads, 63 sectors, 1467 cylinders
Units = cylinders of 16065 * 512 bytes

   Device Boot    Start       End    Blocks   Id  System
/dev/hda1            19       273   2048287+   b  Win95 FAT32
/dev/hda2             1        18    144553+  84  OS/2 hidden C: drive
/dev/hda3           274       940   5357677+   5  Extended
/dev/hda5           274       300    216846   82  Linux swap
/dev/hda6   *       301       684   3084448+  83  Linux
/dev/hda7           685       940   2056288+  83  Linux


freedom ~ $ cat /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
vga=normal
compact
prompt
timeout=50

image=/vmlinuz
   label=linux
   root=/dev/hda6
   read-only

image=/vmlinuz.old
   label=linux.old
   root=/dev/hda6
   read-only

other=/dev/hda1
  label=win

freedom ~ $ 


On Fri, Mar 17, 2000 at 01:07:12PM +0000, Benjamin F. Zhou wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have a Win98 and a Linux installed on my notebook in two primary partitions.
> During Linux setup, I chose Linux as default boot partition because I thought
> "default" means you dont have to choose if want Lnux.
> 
> But after that I notice I could not choose to boot DOS/Win98 partion anymore. I
> have to use fdisk to set that partion to "active" in order to boot Win98 partition.
> 
> this is really tedious and could be dangerous. Is there a way I can set lilo to
> offer me an option to boot from the other partition?
> 
> thanks
> Ben
> 
> 
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