Dual Booting w/Lilo ?

1998-12-04 Thread AJ
Hello, im a sort of *new* debian user (used it like 3 years on shells.. installed it like 3 weeks ago). anyway heres my question: Right now im booting from a linux bootdisk which a) takes a few minutes and b) is a pain in th ass... Now i know if i use lilo linux will boot only but i also have a

Re: Dual Booting w/Lilo ?

1998-12-04 Thread Andrew Ivanov
Ok, this is my lilo.conf: boot = /dev/hda root = /dev/hdb2 install = /boot/boot.b map = /boot/map vga = normal delay = 50 ramdisk = 0 read-only default = linux image = /vmlinuz label = Debian alias = linux image = /boot/vmlinbackup label = backup other = /dev/hda1 label = MS table =

Re: Dual Booting w/Lilo ?

1998-12-04 Thread Oliver Elphick
AJ wrote: ... Is it possible that when i turn on my computer i get a 'BOOT:' prompt and i can type either: 'win' for windows or 'linux' for linux using Lilo? if i can.. can someone give me an example of there lilo.conf file Here's a sample /etc/lilo.conf that allows booting from a choice of

Re: Dual Booting w/Lilo ?

1998-12-04 Thread Sean Johnson
Fist you need to boot up under linux, then using your favorite text editor (I like vi) open up your /etc/lilo.conf file. delete the line that says 'delay=some number' replace it with the word 'prompt' Then move to the end of the file, and add these lines: other=/dev/hdapartition number

Dual Booting w/Lilo ?

1998-12-04 Thread Kenneth Scharf
From: AJ [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hello, im a sort of *new* debian user (used it like 3 years on shells.. installed it like 3 weeks ago). anyway heres my question: Right now im booting from a linux bootdisk which a) takes a few minutes and b) is a pain in th ass... Now i know if i use lilo