BTW, the order of the stanzas in the lilo.conf file determine which OS
get's booted to by default. I've seen some very fancy lilo.conf files that
add menus. The grub/lilo combo that is part of Mandrake has a nice GUI
front-end that makes changing boot order etc.., as simple as clicking a
button. I also noticed that Mandrake sets up a Linux extended partition
which I presume is the Linux version of a DOS extended/logical partition
setup.
-Alex
Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than Hardware gets faster!
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it
said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux." - Anonymous
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Alex Hewitt USG wrote:
> Basicly, what I do is have Lilo write to the first sector of the partition
> that I installed Linux to and then use either the Linux version of fdisk
> or the DOS version to mark the partition as active. It's pretty easy to
> add a stanza to the lilo.conf file to allow booting the DOS/Windows
> partition. I had an NT box that came with a 4 gig drive divided into 2 2
> gig partitions. Under NT's disk administrator I deleted the second
> partition. During the Linux installation I setup up a Linux native
> partition for most of the 2 gigs of free space and a small < 128 meg swap
> partition. When the Linux distro asked me where to write the bootstrap
> (Red Hat), I told it to install the bootstrap to the first sector of the
> linux native partition. When the system rebooted, it came up in Windows
> NT. I then used NT's disk administrator to mark the Linux partition as
> "active". The next reboot gave me a Lilo prompt. Then adding NT to the
> lilo.conf file completed the operation.
>
> -Alex
>
> P.S. The lilo.conf file on my laptop which dual-boots Win2k and Linux
> looks like this:
>
> boot = /dev/hda3
> timeout = 50
> linear
> prompt
> default = linux
> vga = normal
> read-only
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
> label = linux
> root = /dev/hda3
> append="mem=80M"
> other = /dev/hda1
> label = Win2k
>
>
> -Alex
>
>
> Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than Hardware gets faster!
>
> "On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it
> said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux." - Anonymous
>
>
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > This shows another piece of my ignorance.
> > If you load LILO in the boot record of the partition, does that mean
> > that the MBR is left as the M$ MBR? In other words, does it only
> > boot to the partition marked active? Or, can you still multi-boot?
> > I always avoided this, because I couldn't find out what that option
> > means.
> >
> > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> > > For a change, this isn't Microsoft's fault. Linux is actually the
> > > mis-behaving OS in this case. LILO does something completely non-standard
> > > and
> > > goofy by installing special code in the boot record of the partition
> > table.
> > >
> > > The MBR is supposed to load the boot record of the active primary
> > partition,
> > > *NOT* load an OS all by itself.
> > >
> > > I usually recommend installing LILO in the boot record of the boot
> > > partition, which makes Linux a well-behaved OS again.
> > >
> >
> >
> > Bob Sparks
> > Never attribute to malice, that which can be explained by stupidity.
> > Never attribute to stupidity, that which can be explained by lack of
> > information.
> >
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