Greetings: Watching most threads concering LILO and anyone new to
Linux I wonder why I don't see more suggestions to use LOADLIN for
evaluating, and startup setups. It's faster than using a boot floppy,
as Linus does I read, and doesn't possibly mess up the MBR of the
drive. Something like "walk before you run?"
Just a thought. Enjoying the list very much..
Hal - in Terra Alta, WV A M$ Free Environment
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On Sat, Apr 14, 2001 at 02:49:16AM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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>
> On Fri, 13 Apr 2001, kero chan wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I installed RHLinux7 on a box (Dell Dimension
> > 4100)which already has w2k professional. After
> > rebooting, I didn't get LILO (although I did choose to
> > use LILO in MBR), and it went right through to win
> > booting. I don't think this is a machine specific
> > issue since I did the same installation on a notebook
> > (Micron TransPort Trek2) and got the same result - no
> > LILO. Is there a known issue that you cannot use LILO
> > with w2k professional? Is there any way to get around
> > with the problem and use LILO? I'd appreciate any
> > comments or ideas.
> >
> > TIA,
> > kero
> >
> I may be a bit of an old curmudgeon, but I don't trust any distro
> installer to install lilo. The canonical installer for lilo is
> /sbin/lilo. Boot linux from a floppy if need be, edit /etc/lilo.conf
> to suit your situation, and run /sbin/lilo from a console. Pay
> attention to error messages. If you told it to install into the MBR
> ( boot = /dev/hda, for instance) it will install into the MBR or it will
> give you a message on stderr to tell you why it didn't. This may break
> your w2k bootloader. It might rely on using the MBR for its own
> purposes. I don't know. Wine is as close as I will ever get to any
> windows, and it is a *nix program.
>
> Lawson
>
> Half begun is well done. - Benjamin Franklin Spooner
> ---cut here
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