Re: Configuring LILO in Debian
Is it possible to go in and configure LILO to add dos as a boot: option? If so, can someone tell me how to do this? Here is a lilo file I use: 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 = /dev/hda The last 2 blocks are responsible for loading different OSs( backup kernel and windows). You can just change this around a little and dos loading would work for you. Andrew - Andrei S. Ivanov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] UIN 12402354 http://scorpio.myip.org--All the pages bundled together. - -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- Version: 2.6.2 mQCNAzfWpdQAAAEEAMzkmzLbsfl+etaUcsbQtIL51PmO17r6hasF/FsXVXHjfDac GtmQ81XlhWXNp0+u4d2818g3ue5wqMv9NOIAn/rV4WgWv3p8dpcwIAPCw0p3DM68 RpuTGKDSkQcFwzobva/qP+64PS/RF7EDlKHqd454Hk281CbLlPbozTjTC9fxAAUR tAdTY29ycGlv =znD+ -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK-
Configuring LILO in Debian
Hi everybody, I have installed Debian 2.1 on one of my machines. I am also running Windows 98. On my second machine (dual boot Red Hat and Windows 98) Red Hat installed and configured LILO so that I get a boot: prompt at startup where I can either tell it to boot linux or dos. But with my Debian installation, I wasn't given the option to dual boot. When my machine starts up, I get a boot: prompt, but it quickly defaults to linux. If I type in dos, it tells me that I don't have that option and that linux is the only option I have. I KNOW that I have Windows on another partition and need to be able to use LILO to boot both operating systems at various times. Is it possible to go in and configure LILO to add dos as a boot: option? If so, can someone tell me how to do this? Thanks, Bryan Walton
Re: Configuring LILO in Debian
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 09:35:06AM -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote: Hi everybody, Debian installation, I wasn't given the option to dual boot. When my machine starts up, I get a boot: prompt, but it quickly defaults to linux. If I type in dos, it tells me that I don't have that option and Hi alone :) First, you can get boot: by hit the ALT key, second, if it says you don't have a dos option, you didn't create it: i.e.: I have a Debian and an ugly M$ partition: in my /etc/lilo.conf, I have those lines (at the end): . delay=30## 3 seconds to choose image=/vmlinuz ## point toward the symlink to kernel root=/dec/hdc1 ## Debian label=1 read-only other=/dev/hda ## bad bad M$ :) label=2 So, when I wanna boot in M$, I hit ALT within the 3 seconds the word BOOT: is on the screen, then it shows me: BOOT: 1 2 and I hit 2. Of course, after making any change to /etc/lilo.conf, you must run lilo... :) JY -- Jean-Yves F. Barbier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Hackers are just a migratory lifeform with a tropism for computers.
