On Mon, Sep 11, 2000 at 01:15:55PM -0400, Arcady Genkin wrote: > Yesterday I had to install Win2000; while I suspected that it would > overwrite the MBR (where lilo lives), I had a boot floppy ready and > restored the MBR w/o problems. However I can't figure out how to > multiboot into it using LILO as my main boot manager. Searching the > web produced some suggestions on adding linux into the W2K's boot > menu, but I would prefer to stick with lilo all the way. > > Adding the following to lilo.conf: > ,---- > | other = /dev/hda1 > | label = win Here's my lilo with debian and win2k stimpy:/home/jensenb# cat /etc/lilo.conf (apply your information) lba32 boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hda2 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/System.map delay=0 vga=normal default=Linux image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.0 label=Linux read-only other=/dev/hda3 <-- notice hda3, make sure that yours points to the label=win correct partition..ie is win2k really on hda1? Regards, Bill > `---- > doesn't seem to cut it; I get an error message "Cannot find NTBF." or > some such, after which the only optoin is C-A-Del. > > Is there a clean solution to this problem? Will I have to reinstall > Win2K since I hosed its MBR? > > Thanks for any pointers, > -- > Arcady Genkin > Don't read everything you believe. > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe debian-user-request@lists.debian.org < /dev/null >
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