RE: Booting into win instead of Linux

1998-04-27 Thread Michael S. Dunsavage
You could just rerun lilo and when you are ready to select a partition, select a DOS partition. >= Original Message From Patrick Colbeck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> = >On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 12:35:28AM -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: > >RTFM sure but it doesn't always help. I tried this with RedHat 4.2

Re: Booting into win instead of Linux

1998-04-27 Thread Patrick Colbeck
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 03:28:53AM -0400, William T Wilson wrote: > On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Patrick Colbeck wrote: > > > would not work. I got the same OS as default no matter which way arround I > > had them ! With RedHat 5.0 it works perfectly so I guess there is a bugged > > lilo arround somewher

Re: Booting into win instead of Linux

1998-04-27 Thread William T Wilson
On Mon, 27 Apr 1998, Patrick Colbeck wrote: > would not work. I got the same OS as default no matter which way arround I > had them ! With RedHat 5.0 it works perfectly so I guess there is a bugged > lilo arround somewhere (possibly the one that shipped with RH 4.2 ?) There is a lilo option defa

Re: Booting into win instead of Linux

1998-04-27 Thread Patrick Colbeck
On Mon, Apr 27, 1998 at 12:35:28AM -0400, Tom Diehl wrote: RTFM sure but it doesn't always help. I tried this with RedHat 4.2 and it would not work. I got the same OS as default no matter which way arround I had them ! With RedHat 5.0 it works perfectly so I guess there is a bugged lilo arround s

Re: Booting into win instead of Linux

1998-04-26 Thread Tom Diehl
On Sun, 26 Apr 1998, John Waalkes wrote: > ISA wrote: > > > > Hi there! > > > Question: > > How can I tell LILO to default to windows 95 instead of Linux? (ie > > typing linux to load it > > and to load win95) > > Now that you've got how set the default once you've installed Linux > covered,

Re: Booting into win instead of Linux

1998-04-26 Thread John Waalkes
ISA wrote: > > Hi there! > Question: > How can I tell LILO to default to windows 95 instead of Linux? (ie > typing linux to load it > and to load win95) Now that you've got how set the default once you've installed Linux covered, here's how to do it during your next installation: Hit 'F2' at

Re: Booting into win instead of Linux

1998-04-21 Thread Cory T. Lamb
The easiest way to do this is type: lilo -D win95 (or whatever the label is) On Tue, 21 Apr 1998, Steve Smith wrote: > I just solved this problem myself. Look in /etc/ for the file > lilo.conf. Edit this file, it should look something like > > boot=/dev/hda > prompt > timeout=100 > image=

Re: Booting into win instead of Linux

1998-04-21 Thread adam
On 17 Apr, ISA wrote: > Question: > How can I tell LILO to default to windows 95 instead of Linux? (ie typing linux to >load it > and to load win95) All that you need to do is place the windows95 entry in lilo.conf before any other entries, and it will become the default.

Re: Booting into win instead of Linux

1998-04-21 Thread Steve Smith
Ooops! Also, don't forget to run /sbin/lilo so your changes will take affect. Good luck! Steve Smith wrote: > I just solved this problem myself. Look in /etc/ for the file > lilo.conf. Edit this file, it should look something like > > boot=/dev/hda > prompt > timeout=100 > image=/boot/vm

Re: Booting into win instead of Linux

1998-04-21 Thread Vidiot
What the HELL is this CRAP? How are we supposed to respond to your question when you pull this crap. Post your message in PLAIN ASCII TEXT. Good grief. I was going to answer you question, now I'm not. MB >This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > >--=_NextPart_000_009C_01BD6A1F.C45C

Re: Booting into win instead of Linux

1998-04-21 Thread Bob Dippold
Add a stanza in the preamble of lilo as follows   default=win95   and run /sbin/lilo   that should take care of it -Original Message-From: ISA <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>To: RedHat List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>Date: Tuesday, April 21, 1998 4:13 PMSubject: Boot

Re: Booting into win instead of Linux

1998-04-21 Thread Steve Smith
I just solved this problem myself. Look in /etc/ for the file lilo.conf. Edit this file, it should look something like boot=/dev/hda prompt timeout=100 image=/boot/vmlinuz label=linux initrd=/boot/initrd root=/dev/hda1 other=/boot/ (not sure what this entry

Booting into win instead of Linux

1998-04-21 Thread ISA
Hi there!    History:  I installed Linux on a second hard disk and let the installation place the Lilo bootstrap on the MBR of my first IDE.   Fact: Every time the computer boots it loads LILO (as usual, nothing wrong about it) and I type win95 to load Windows and just to