Re: lilo as boot manager possible ?
I'd strongly suggest to read and understand LILO-Docs before Yuo
start, so You know, what You are doing.
Matth
On Fri, 17 Mar 2000, Laurent Martelli wrote:
> >>>>> "Benjamin" == Benjamin F Zhou <zhoub@fisci.com> writes:
>
> Benjamin> Hi, I have a Win98 and a Linux installed on my notebook in
> Benjamin> two primary partitions. During Linux setup, I chose Linux
> Benjamin> as default boot partition because I thought "default"
> Benjamin> means you dont have to choose if want Lnux.
>
> Benjamin> But after that I notice I could not choose to boot
> Benjamin> DOS/Win98 partion anymore. I have to use fdisk to set that
> Benjamin> partion to "active" in order to boot Win98 partition.
>
> Benjamin> this is really tedious and could be dangerous. Is there a
> Benjamin> way I can set lilo to offer me an option to boot from the
> Benjamin> other partition?
>
> Her's my lilo.conf (/dev/hda1 => win, /dev/hda3 => linux)
>
> boot = /dev/hda
> delay = 40
> vga = normal
> root = /dev/hda3
> read-only
> default = new
>
> image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14
> label = linux
> image = /boot/bzImage-2.2.14
> label = new
> other = /dev/hda1
> label = win
> table = /dev/hda
>
>
> When lilo is printed, press CTRL and type "win" or "linux".
>
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