On Wed, Aug 04, 1999 at 09:24:39AM +0300, virtanen wrote > On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, Andrei Ivanov wrote: > > > > while rebooting to get into DOS. There is win95 installed on the same > > > hd and I'm using 'loadlin'. (It was impossible to get lilo working > > > with this machine.) With win95 the power goes off automaticly, when I stop > > > the os.)
Could be that Win95 is overriding what you put in the BIOS. Try disabling the auto power-off in Windows before running loadlin, if it gives you the option. > > > > Why not LILO? Whats wrong with the system? > > Andrew > > For some reason it didn't work. I don't remember exactly any more what > went wrong, but for some time I couldn't run even win any more after > trying to install lilo. I might try again after solving some other > problems of this machine. There is something I should do for BIOS, but > I've tried already to adjust it so many times without success that I > became a little frustrated with that. Decided to try solving that video > card problem for a while and to come back to this BIOS problem later. > You know, you can install LILO onto a floppy and muck about with it there, so you can get it sorted without risking making your machine unbootable; just make sure you use boot=/dev/fd0 in /etc/lilo.conf instead of something like boot=/dev/hda or boot=/dev/hda2 John P. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Oh - I - you know - my job is to fear everything." - Bill Gates in Denmark
