Configuring LILO to boot a backup installation

2001-10-19 Thread Morbo
Hi, I thought it would be a good idea to keep a copy of my installation on a different partition as a safety, before I try upgradeing to Woody. Currently LILO is installed on the MBR and boots hda1 as root. I would like to add an entry to optionaly boot hda2 as root where my backup is. But curren

Re: Configuring LILO in Debian

1999-10-23 Thread Andrei Ivanov
> Is it possible to go in and configure LILO to add dos as a > "boot:" option? If so, can someone tell me how to do this? Here is a lilo file I use: boot = /dev/hda root = /dev/hdb2 install = /boot/boot.b map = /boot/map vga = normal delay = 50 ramdisk = 0 read-only default = linux image = /vm

Re: Configuring LILO in Debian

1999-10-22 Thread Jean-Yves BARBIER
On Fri, Oct 22, 1999 at 09:35:06AM -0500, Bryan K. Walton wrote: > Hi everybody, > Debian installation, I wasn't given the option to dual boot. When my > machine starts up, I get a "boot:" prompt, but it quickly defaults to > linux. If I type in dos, it tells me that I don't have that option and

Configuring LILO in Debian

1999-10-22 Thread Bryan K. Walton
Hi everybody, I have installed Debian 2.1 on one of my machines. I am also running Windows 98. On my second machine (dual boot Red Hat and Windows 98) Red Hat installed and configured LILO so that I get a "boot:" prompt at startup where I can either tell it to boot linux or dos. But with

Re: configuring lilo

1997-08-09 Thread Jean Pierre LeJacq
On Sun, 10 Aug 1997, Wiria Atmadja Kusuma wrote: > Hi there.., I am a newbie in linux( debian ), I had just installed the > debian linux in hdb1, but I had trouble configuring the lilo, my system is > 166mmx, 64 megs of sdram, previously installed NT40 and win95, can anyone > out there please tell

configuring lilo

1997-08-09 Thread Wiria Atmadja Kusuma
Hi there.., I am a newbie in linux( debian ), I had just installed the debian linux in hdb1, but I had trouble configuring the lilo, my system is 166mmx, 64 megs of sdram, previously installed NT40 and win95, can anyone out there please tell me where to start with this so call lilo? Please.. The n