On Friday 25 Oct 2002 7:24 pm, N S SRIKANTH wrote: > Hi Listers, > > I run a dual boot (Win 98/ PCQ Linux) PC at home. PCQ is on a 10 GB > partition. Now I got hold of Mandrake 9.0 and Slackware CD's. I would like > to install them one by one on a fresh 5 GB partition which I will carve out > of Windows and try it out keeping the PCQ installation undisturbed as my > basic Linux distro. > > I dual boot thru LILO which is on MBR. Now it presents linux and Dos (win) > options. How to get the third option, say of booting Mandrake after > installing it? > > The following is the output of my /etc/lilo.conf : > ---------------------------------------------------- > prompt > timeout=50 > default=DOS > boot=/dev/hda > map=/boot/map > install=/boot/boot.b > message=/boot/message > lba32 > > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3 > label=linux > initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img > read-only > root=/dev/hda9 > append="hdc=ide-scsi" > > other=/dev/hda1 > optional > label=DOS > ------------------------------------------------------------------- > Pl help > > N S Srikanth > Trivandrum
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