When I've gotten LI instead of the lilo prompt, it was from not having the
/boot partition in the first 1023 cylinders on the hard drive, and yes, I've
gotten lilo to work like you have, linux or dos, if dos then show ntloader
menu.
Dean
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Sent: Friday, December 10, 1999 1:06 PM
Subject: Lilo Problem
>
> Hi All
>
> I've got a dual boot machine, nt4.0 and rh6.1 (Via Mandrake 6.5 package).
I
> have system commander also.
> If I select Linux under sys commander I get the first two letters of Lilo,
"li"
> and that's all folks.
>
> If I boot from floppy, linux works great although it boots slow.
>
> I've tried screwing with linuxconfig and reset the boot parameters for
lilo and
> had the machine boot beutifully into linux, but then there wasn't an
option for
> nt. I'd inturn boot ontop floppy and do a restore on Sys Commander to get
NT
> back.
>
> Herer's my lilo.conf
>
> boot = /dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=150
> image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13-4mdk
> label = linux
> root = /dev/hdc1
> initrd=/initrd.img
> other = /dev/hda1
> label = nt
> table=/dev/hda
>
> any insight I'd appreciate...I've been scared of lilo in dual boot mode
since
> clobbering a Win3.1 install after installing over 30 5 1/4" floppies to
get
> slackware running.
>
> Thanks
>
> Roy
>
>
>
>
>
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