On Tue, Jun 01, 2004 at 06:40:16AM -0700, Aldous Huxley wrote: > I'm hoping that this group will again, offer up great, effective advice > for an issue I'm grappling with. > I have a computer with Windows 98 installed on the primary hard drive > (c: windows; hda1 linux) and Woody installed on a second hard drive > (d: windows; hdb1 linux). When I installed Woody, I made the linux > system bootable with a floppy, which as some of you probably already > know, takes forever to boot up. I want to use lilo to make my system > dual bootable windows/linux at startup. Since I originally made my > linux system bootable with a floppy, there is no /etc/lilo.conf file > on hdb1. I need to know each and every step to make my system dual > bootable from the with hda1 partition, in other words, the boot > partition of windows.
Install the lilo package (if you haven't already). Read man lilo and man lilo.conf . Edit /etc/lilo.conf . (It's commented very well so you see the meaning of all options.) To be sure, run lilo -t -v . (Test only.) Run lilo . (_Never_ forget this step!) > I am paranoid that windows will not work after installing lilo on my > windows master boot partition, but someone told me that as long as you > have made a windows bootable floppy with fdisk on it (which I have) > that there is some command you can issue that will restore the mbr > as it was. fdisk /mbr ... or under linux: lilo -u > So basically what I am asking of this group are the commands I need > to include in a lilo.conf file (which I will create and hand-edit) As I said above, you get a good template. There's not much more to do than change some /dev/xxx's and remove some #'s. > that will allow me to boot into windows 98 or woody, and also some > advice on how to restore my mbr as it was if all hell breaks loose. > Thanks for all the sage advice, as always... > HTH -- Joachim Fahnenmüller # Hi! I'm a .signature virus. Copy me into # your ~/.signature to help me spread! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
