On Fri, 12 Apr 2002, joe elky turner wrote:

> i have just installed debian 2.2_r5.
> i have a problem with lilo ... it doesnt let me choose which os to boot, it boots 
>directly to linux...
>  
> help what should i do??
> 
> i dual boot windows XP and debian.

add a line for delay in /etc/lilo.conf:

delay=20

and of course you need to have an entry for the XP partition with a
label. example:

other=/dev/hda1
        label=XP

after you've added those entries, run lilo as super user then shutdown -r
now to test.


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