nate wrote:
> i'v been trying to change my /etc/lilo.conf file so i
> can get into windows but it wont work, i'v posted
> topics on www.linuxnewbie.org's BB with only finding
> out about a little text editor in debian called nano
> so i can accually change the lilo.conf file but it
> still wont work. Here is what mine looks like, maby
> you can tell if something is wrong.
nano is the free (as in speech) version of pico, which is the editor
that the pine mail program uses. It's easy and gives you prompts.
> other = /dev/hda1
> label = windows
> tabel = /dev/hda
This looks good to me, as long as hda1 is your windows partition. At
the top of lilo.conf, change the following paragraph to look like this
in order to be able to choose an OS:
# message=/boot/bootmess.txt
prompt
# single-key
delay=100
timeout=100
> Does this look right? what if /dev/hda1 isn't where my
> windows partition is? is the a command in linux to
> find out where my windows partition is?
fdisk -l /dev/hdx (must be root, the "-l" is "dash ell", not "minus
one") will list all the partitions on the "x" hardrive, usually "a".
Once you know which partition is windows, you can mount it in Linux with
the following commands, where XX is the drive letter and partition:
mkdir /win
mount -t vfat /dev/hdXX /win
Add the following lines to /etc/fstab to have the windows partition
added automatically when you boot the machine:
/dev/hdXX /win vfat defaults,rw 0 1
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