On Wed, 4 Aug 1999, John Pearson 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.
Thanks. I'll try to do this next. I didn't know that there was that kind of button in win95. Now I've found it. Even after disabling that auto-power-off the machine does auto-power-off while stopping win95! The difference is that it does that auto-power-off even earlier now while stopping win... But probably it made a change anyway. I'll try installing slink again when I'll have time. > 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 I will try that as well. -hv
