Re: lilo as boot manager - thank you all !

["Benjamin F. Zhou" <zhoub@fisci.com>]

Hi,

thank you all for responses. with all these and the last shot taught by Patrick, I
have my old good CPQ Armada dual-bootable with Lilo as boot manager.

thank you for sharing your knowledge !

Best Regards to this list !

Ben

Patrick wrote:

> > >
> > > 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".
> > >
> Hi,
>
> This lilo.conf looks fine.  But you most probably have not RUN lilo
> to set it in the mbr.  su to root, type lilo and you should see boot
> options being added as follows
>
> linux*
> new
> win
>
> Meaning linux is the default.
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