Re: LILO-rific
On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 01:15:56PM -0700, Tal Danzig wrote
> Hello,
>
> Set boot to /dev/hda (the MBR) and your setup should work just fine.
>
> Tal
>
If you're really paranoid, you can use it as-is; you just have to
use fdisk (linux or windows) to make /dev/hda3 (and only /dev/hda3)
active/bootable after installing LILO. That tells the DOS MBR which
partition boot record to load.
> On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 16:08:55 EDT, Rubbish5@aol.com said:
>
> : 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
> :
> : 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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