On Mon, Sep 04, 2000 at 01:15:56PM -0700, Tal Danzig wrote > Hello, > > Set boot to /dev/hda (the MBR) and your setup should work just fine. > > Tal >
If you're really paranoid, you can use it as-is; you just have to use fdisk (linux or windows) to make /dev/hda3 (and only /dev/hda3) active/bootable after installing LILO. That tells the DOS MBR which partition boot record to load. > On Mon, 4 Sep 2000 16:08:55 EDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > > : Okay, I pretty much get LILO... Here's my deal: Windows in on hda1, Linux > is > : on hda3 (hda2 is a compaq backup, and hda4 is Linux Swap). What I want to > : have happen is that when I start my comp without any boot floppies or CDs, > I > : have the choice to load Win or Lin. I would like Win as default, and I > would > : like a password protecting Win, although that's not so important. What > I've > : got as my lilo.conf at this point (which I have not yet loaded with the > lilo > : command) is: > : > : boot=/dev/hda3 > : root=/dev/hda3 > : install=/boot/boot.b > : map=/boot/map > : vga=normal > : delay=20 > : other=/dev/hda1 > : label=Win > : table=/dev/hda > : password=secret > : image=/vmlinuz > : label=Linux > : read-only > : > : I'm a little confused about boot being set, since shouldn't that maybe be > : hda1, since windows MBR, er... I really don't get that part so well. The > : last question is: As of now I'm using a floppy to boot to Linux. > Otherwise > : the system boots to Windows no questions asked, since I haven't touched > the > : MBR. If I load lilo into the MBR, and I decide it's not working out for > me, > : is there a quick way to pull it back out? Much thanks, bye! > : > : -Chris > : > : > : -- > : Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > : > : > > -- > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > | Tal Danzig | Join #libranet on the | > | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | openprojects IRC network | > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > | http://www.libranet.com | Tal Danzig | > | The TOP Desktop! | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | > ---------------------------------------------------------------- > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null > -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.mdt.net.au/~john Debian Linux admin & support:technical services
