> I'd strongly recommend you put LILO in the mbr of your hard drive. It seems > to always work so much better for me that way. It doesn't hurt anything, > because you can (as you may well know) boot windows ME from the LILO prompt. > Just add the partition winME is on to /etc/lilo.conf so that it looks almost > like your linux partition's config section, but you don't want it to mount > read-only, and you don't have a /vmlinuz for windows ;). Maybe I'm stupid > too, who knows. Haven't used linux actively for a long while. > > - Jordan > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://e.themes.org php developer Also possible to use a different MBR replacement to do the picking - then, LILO installed as you described makes a lot more sense. There's a stack of 'em listed at freshmeat if you go digging... GAG actually *looks* really nice, but I haven't tried it yet.
Anyways unlike many apps, LILO's manual actually is excellemt and definitely has examples of loading up an MSwin partition (search for 'dos'). If I were given the same situation (dual ME + Debian) I'd use LILO, it's quiet and I'm used to it. Hmm, does anyone know if there's a helpful GUI for lilo.conf the way there's a helpful GUI for LOADLIN.EXE? * Heather Stern * star@ many places... > > Not sure if this is a laptop problem or if I just don't understand how > > to use LILO. I'm trying to get the laptop to boot to both WindowsME > > and Debian using LILO and I've installed LILO in the boot block of the > > linux partition rather that the MBR. Seems everytime I try to boot > > Debian from the hard disk I get any number of wierd symptoms before the > > kernel is able to execute and then the system shuts down. I'm able to > > boot from the boot floppy created during installation though, and no > > problem booting WindowsME. > > > > > > > > Here's an excerpt: > > > > LILO Loading Linux........................... > > Uncompressing Linux... > > > > invalid compressed format (other) > > > > -- System Halted > > > > > > > > This is not totally consistent. Sometimes I get "crc error". > > Sometimes I get "block move error 0x02". Sometimes I get "Out of > > Memory" > > > > Also, when I do boot with the boot floppy I will get the following > > after a bit: > > > > register_serial():autoconfig failed > > register_serial() at 0x0af8, irg 11 failed > > > > Not quite as worried about this as I am worried the boot problem. > > However, I'd love to hear any advice on either :) > > > > The laptop is a Netlux 6020 (a.k.a. MiNote 6020) built by Mitac > > > > > > > > ===== > > Clinton S. Olson - Owner, Steven's Pass Carving Elvises > > http://userzweb.lightspeed.net/~bruski/fl2000/fl.html > > > > "When we lost, I couldn't sleep at night. When we win, I > > can't sleep at night. But when you win, you wake up > > feeling better" > > - Joe Torre > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do You Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Calendar - Get organized for the holidays! > > http://calendar.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > -- > > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] >
