lilo wierdness
Hello:
I have a system dual-booting win98(for kid's games) and debian. The
debian install basically went over top of a Red Hat install, but
something wierd happened with lilo. The prompt is truncated:
LILboot:
and no keyboard input is accepted (no "dos", no tab) although if I hold
down the shift key I get a stream of
boot:
*Interrupted*
on the screen.
I know that win98 is still bootable, because I ran lilo with the option
(forget what it is right now) that causes a specific OS to boot one time
on the subsequent reboot. I guess I did something wrong when I installed
lilo on the debian install (didn't uninstall the RedHat's lilo correctly
or something) but I'm confused as to how to fix it. My idea was to run
the dos MBR program (which clobbers the master boot record where lilo is
installed, I think)boot debian from a floppy and rerun lilo. Am I on the
right track?
btw, lilo.conf has "prompt" and "delay=50". Here's the relevant entries:
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=Linux
alias=1
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
table=/dev/hda
alias=2
Thanks,
A lilo non-expert.
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