Re: Lilo on dual boot system with reformatting

["Oliver Elphick" <olly@lfix.co.uk>]

In message <[🔎] 3.0.1.32.19970925111639.007b5100@pp.hw.ac.uk>, writes:
  >Hi all,
  >
  >I just got Debian linux on CD and following the advice of friends I
  >partitioned my Windows 95 Harrdisk to 2 partitions FAT32 for W95 and
  >un-partitioned for linux. My Question is now how can I install LILO on the
  >boot sector of the FAT32 partition to make it possible to choose the boot
  >system to use at the startup.

Create /etc/lilo.conf containing the right description of your system
and run /sbin/lilo to write the boot sector.  I attach my own lilo.conf
file as an example.  

The documentation in /usr/doc/lilo is informative, though rather difficult to 
grasp at first.

Attachment: binsHRGERQ2NN.bin
Description: lilo.conf

Oliver Elphick                                Oliver.Elphick@lfix.co.uk
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