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Re: Debian3.0, Win2000 and LILO problem



On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 the mental interface of 
Jan Krupa told:

> 
> Thanks for answer.
> 
> On Sun, 17 Nov 2002, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
> 
> > Hi Jan,
> > 
> > On Sun, 17 Nov 2002 the mental interface of 
> > Jan Krupa told:
> > 
> > [...]
> > 
> > > # Boot up Linux by default.
> >     ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > #
> > > default=Win2000(hda1)
> >   ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >   What do you want as your default?
> 
> I want win2k to be deafault so I put default=Win2000(hda1)
> 
> > 
> > So everything you need in your lilo.conf is:
> > 
> > boot = /dev/hda
> This line causes to remove the W2k loader doesn't it?
> If so how to recover it not to install W2k again?

With lilo. man lilo
# lilo -u /dev/hda

Or repair the bootsektor with your W2K CD.

Installing lilo in the mbr is not a problem. I a running one
maschine with deb suse and w2k booting from mbr with lilo ;)

> First I had: boot = /dev/hda3 
> it worked for two days but when it finished to work I tried:
> boot=/dev/hda3

Can't see a diffrence?

> It's a little bit better but still not enough well (see below).

What is better boot=/dev/hda3 or boot=/dev/hda3. lilo.conf accepts
blanks or not. That is not the point and makes no different ;-)

See man lilo.conf

Uff


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