Re: LILO-rific
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 04:08:55PM -0400, Rubbish5@aol.com wrote:
> Okay, I pretty much get LILO... Here's my deal: Windows in on hda1, Linux is
> on hda3 (hda2 is a compaq backup, and hda4 is Linux Swap). What I want to
> have happen is that when I start my comp without any boot floppies or CDs, I
> have the choice to load Win or Lin. I would like Win as default, and I would
> like a password protecting Win, although that's not so important. What I've
> got as my lilo.conf at this point (which I have not yet loaded with the lilo
> command) is:
>
> boot=/dev/hda3
> root=/dev/hda3
> install=/boot/boot.b
> map=/boot/map
> vga=normal
> delay=20
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=Win
> table=/dev/hda
> password=secret
> image=/vmlinuz
> label=Linux
> read-only
>
boot=/dev/hda <-- This is the drive that lilo puts it's boot block. hda3 in
in your case is the partition that's holding linux.
Also you might want to add a default=win statement in there. When LILO
shows itself you can simply hit return and it will 'default' into Win.
I don't think you need the table=/dev/hda because your already telling it that
other=/dev/hda1 (windows)
> I'm a little confused about boot being set, since shouldn't that maybe be
> hda1, since windows MBR, er... I really don't get that part so well. The
> last question is: As of now I'm using a floppy to boot to Linux. Otherwise
> the system boots to Windows no questions asked, since I haven't touched the
> MBR. If I load lilo into the MBR, and I decide it's not working out for me,
> is there a quick way to pull it back out? Much thanks, bye!
>
> -Chris
>
>
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LILO will overwrite your windows MBR, however, if you reall want just to boot
back into windows and wipe lilo out you can, if i remember right, do a
fdisk /mbr and that will reload a windows only MBR. You would do this from
windows and not in linux btw.
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