On Sun, 7 Mar 1999, cristian wrote:
> A strange thing happened to me when I tried to change the default of
> Lilo from linux to dos. I put in lilo.conf "dos" the first and "linux"
> second and it had no effect. So I changed back lilo.conf.
You need to run lilo after doing some editing in /etc/lilo.conf.
that's the rule in order to make lilo notice what you modify.
> At the advice of someone named "Frontal" I did:
> Lilo -D dos
> and it worked. Now I have Lilo with dos as default.
This is explained in the man page. I know it's a trick that only
advanced users know it but I'll share it with you 'man lilo'.
> I was courious and I looked in lilo.conf. It is unchanged, linux is
> first and dos second. And is still booting dos as default. I don't know
> why all strange things are happening to me. When I installed linux the
> setup asked if I want Lilo in hda or in hda3(my linux partition) and I
> answered in hda3. Is this of any importance ?
RH asks wether to put lilo in the MBR, in the Linux root partition
or the floppy boot record.
> By the way, would it be possible more than 2 OS in lilo.conf ?
There can be at something like 64 labels. This could mean 64 OSs
as well.
Raider
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