RE: Lilo Question
Hi,
> After hours and hours of aggravation I was finally able to get both
> Windoze and Debian installed on my wife's compaq presario. Because of
> partioning problems (I think) I had to install win98 in the first
> partition and it finally worked fine. I will copy some of the files from
> the CD to drive, as suggested by folks here on the list.
Everyone goes through this, its a rite of passage. :)
>
> My problem now is that when I installed and configured the kernel for
> libranet debian, it overwrote the mbr and now I can't boot windoze from
> the hd. Lilo just gives me linux.
>
> I will get to the man page as soon as I'm not so tired, in the meantime,
> I have a couple of questions:
>
> 1.) Can I use the Liloconfig tool to include windoze in my lilo
> configuration. I know this is a dumb question, I'm just overly cautious
> about blowing my /mbr because I have a LS-120 floppy drive that so far
> has not allowed me to make any boot floppies. I also have linuxconf on
> the machine.
>
i don't know about liloconfig. but if you add these lines to your
/etc/lilo.conf file, you should have no problems
other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
and rerun /sbin/lilo to rewrite the changes. that is assuming windows is on
the first hard drive (hda), partition 1.
> 2.) Because of this lack of boot floppies, is there a bullet-proof way
> to configure LILO for both OS's?
>
> thanks
>
hope that helps.
Jason
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