APM/LILO [was Re: Configuring a monitor?]
On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 09:24:39AM +0300, virtanen wrote
> On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote:
>
> > > while rebooting to get into DOS. There is win95 installed on the same
> > > hd and I'm using 'loadlin'. (It was impossible to get lilo working
> > > with this machine.) With win95 the power goes off automaticly, when I stop
> > > the os.)
Could be that Win95 is overriding what you put in the BIOS. Try disabling
the auto power-off in Windows before running loadlin, if it gives you the
option.
> >
> > Why not LILO? Whats wrong with the system?
> > Andrew
>
> For some reason it didn't work. I don't remember exactly any more what
> went wrong, but for some time I couldn't run even win any more after
> trying to install lilo. I might try again after solving some other
> problems of this machine. There is something I should do for BIOS, but
> I've tried already to adjust it so many times without success that I
> became a little frustrated with that. Decided to try solving that video
> card problem for a while and to come back to this BIOS problem later.
>
You know, you can install LILO onto a floppy and muck about with it
there, so you can get it sorted without risking making your machine
unbootable; just make sure you use
boot=/dev/fd0
in /etc/lilo.conf instead of something like
boot=/dev/hda
or
boot=/dev/hda2
John P.
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