On Tuesday 18 June 2002 20:16, Mark Johnson wrote:
> Hello all,
> I recently installed Windows XP and reformatted to NTFS. I then
> Installed my partition magic and bootmagic, and boot magic wouldn't
> install to the ntfs partition. well, my problem is that boot magic said
> to not use lilo in the mbr so I told lilo to boot from ext2 partition
> and bootmagic booted lilo from the partition. now that I don't have
> bootmagic I have to boot from floppy as Lilo doesn't come up. I read
> through the man pages and the help from "lilo --help" and I can't figure
> out how to get Lilo to boot from the MBR again? does anyone know which
> option tells LILO to boot from the MBR instaed of the ext2 partition?
Simpel;
In /etc/lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
Or is you have a SCSI disk;
boot=/dev/sda
A typical config for dual boot would be;
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
linear
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.19-pre9
label=2.4.19-pre9
vga=normal
read-only
root=/dev/hdb6
other=/dev/hda1
optional
label=dos
Make sure your lilo config file is ok with;
/sbin/lilo -t
and/or if you like a lot of verbose messages;
/sbin/lilo -t -v -v
If no errors are returned by lilo -t then do;
/sbin/lilo to install lilo onto the MBR.
>
> Thanks
> -=Mark=-
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Regards Richard
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