Re: LILO/Boot floppies
On Sun, 03 Sep 2000, Rubbish5@aol.com wrote:
> I upgraded my Debian system today, so the kernel is the newest Debian's got
> up, but since I'm booting off a floppy right now, I'm still loading the old
> kernel. I'm still a little stuck on getting LILO working. I'm dual-booting
> Linux and Windows, and I chose Windows as default from hard disk. Someone
> told me to edit LILO's config file and change "default" from win to linux.
> However, there is no default option so I can't do that. My basic question(s)
> are: 1. How do I configure LILO so that, without a floppy or cd, I have the
> option on boot to choose which OS I want to load 2. how do I create a new
> Linux boot disk so that I can boot from disk with the new kernel? Thanks
> much, bye!
Below is my /etc/lilo.conf generated by redhat. It will look a little
different than yours but will give you a template to work with. To
change the default OS loaded automatically give "default=" the label
you wish. In order to boot your new kernel create a section like the
one that already exists for your current kernel and change "image=" to
point to your new kernel. Also change the "label=" section for your
new kernel. Run /sbin/lilo to activate the changes. When you reboot
hit <tab> when you see lilo starting, and you will be given a list of
boot choices. Type in the one you want and go:)
hth,
kent
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
default=debian
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
label=redhat
read-only
root=/dev/hda2
image=/mnt/deb/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.17
label=debian
read-only
root=/dev/hda12
other=/dev/hda1
label=windows98
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