Re: lilo, linux and win95
Sorry but, what on earth happened to /dev/hda2, /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda4 ??
and what is the bit about
>> Install a master boot record on /dev/hada
what is /dev/h[a]da ??, shouldn't that be /dev/hda[X] ?
--Jon.
> >
> > system with LILO as boot manager.
> >
> > cfdisk shows:
> >
> > /dev/hda1 Boot Primary Dos FAT16 (has Win95 installed on it)
> > /dev/hda5 Logical Linux
> > /dev/hda6 Logical Linux Swap
> >
> > If I run LILO and tell it to generate a new /etc/lilo.conf and then answer:
> >
> > Install a partition boot record to boot linux from /dev/hda5? yes
> > Install a master boot record on /dev/hada yes
> > Make /dev/hda5 the active partition? yes
>
>
> If you pick the mbr, say goodbye to your win95 bootloader, because lilo
> will overwrite the win95 bootloader (you won't be able to boot win95).
> Actually, there should be one backup copy to restore from. However, if
> you keep each os'es bootloader on their own partition, you can just
> change the active (bootable) partition to get the other os, should lilo
> fail for any reason. This, you can safely and easily do with either
> linux or dos fdisk, and this eliminates the problem of one boot record
> overwriting the other.
> I haven't tried it yet, but there's also a "chos" ("choose OS") package
> in hamm that is supposed to make a nice menu at boot. Undoubtedly,
> there are numerous other possibilities, as well.
> The best lilo reference I found (though somewhat long and terse):
> /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt.gz
>
> There should also be a number of mini-howto's on booting possibilities:
> /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Linux+DOS+Win95+OS2.gz
> /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Linux+FreeBSD.gz
> /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader.gz
> /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Linux+Win95.gz
> /usr/doc/HOWTO/mini/Loadlin+Win95.gz
>
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