Hi, I just installed GNU/Linux using the compact boot floppies onto my boss's windows 98 computer. He has 2 hard drives, the first, hda devoted to windows 98, and the second drive hdb devoted to linux. At the end of the installation, when it says make the system bootable, I decided to go ahead and make a boot floppy instead of overwriting the MBR with lilo (if that is the right terminology). I was afraid of making his machine unbootable with windows 98 and the boot floppy approach seemed to be the safe route. After making the boot floppy, I rebooted and finished the installation (I should note that booting from the floppy was painfully slow, is this normal?), and everything seemed fine. However, I would like to go ahead and use lilo and install things in the MBR of the first hard drive hda (now used by windows 98) and let lilo control the booting of either windows or linux.
Is there an easy way to get lilo set up so that it can boot up either windows 98 or linux? Do I need to run just lilo or do I also have to run mbr-activate? I have read through the installation guide and have taken a look at the Manual.txt.gz in the lilo documentation. It seems that the install program makes setting up lilo fairly easy (during installation) and wondered if I should go back to the installer to make the system bootable, or do it from the command line after editing /etc/lilo.conf. Note, I have installed the compact flavor (i386) on a single drive system that was just running Debian and on a mac 68K and powerpc, but don't have any experience with lilo in a dual boot situation. I don't want to render my bosses windows 98 setup unusable if I can certainly help it. Any guidance would be very much appreciated. Thanks, John Schmidt [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
