On Fri Mar 10 2000 at 21:01, KK wrote:
> Hi,
> I have a PC installed and running on win98. I recently installed RH 6.1 on
> another hard-disk with LILO boot loader. I need to make my system dual boot
> without re-installing win98. Writing to lilo.conf that windows is on /dev/hdb1
> does not work. What must I do?
Easiest way is to make a boot floppy for the purpose.
Edit /etc/lilo.conf so that
boot=/dev/hda
becomes
boot=/dev/fd0
Assuming that everything else in there is valid (after removing
any reference to you windows parition), put in a floppy disk and
run lilo to create a boot sector on it.
When you want to boot windows, boot from the hard drive.
When you want to boot linux, boot from the floppy (which will be
almost as fast as it only reads a few hundred bytes from it
before continuing to boot off the kernel image on the hard
drive).
You'll have to update this disk if you change things around on
your linux partitions (eg, new kernel etc).
Cheers
Tony
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