[NCLUG] Re: LILO on fragile flies
Person Who Asked To Have Her Name Removed From The Internet
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Sun Nov 11 13:40:13 MST 2001
No, win 98.
And it does work as I used to have it boot
ok with another harddrive running debian.
???
thanks,
liz
--- dmiles <dmiles at holly.colostate.edu> wrote:
> You're using XP, aren't you?
>
> the secret is that XP does not put a boot loader in the boot sector of the partition
> you install it on, it only puts it in the MBR. So, you've either got to dupe it into
> putting the boot record where you want it or you've got to use the MS bootloader to
> boot linux (yes it's possible).
>
> On Sat, 10 Nov 2001 18:26:02 -0800 (PST), Person Who Asked To Have Her Name Removed From The Internet <ADDRESS_REMOVED_BY_REQUEST>
> wrote:
> > i tried both options, and it only now does:
> >
> > LILO 21.7-5 boot: win
> > Loading win
> > _
> >
> > then stuck there until hard reboot
> > other=/dev/hdb1
> > table=/dev/hdb
> > label=WIN
> >
> > OR
> > other=/dev/hdb1
> > table=/dev/hda
> > label=WIN
> >
> > note, after changing lilo.conf i did run 'lilo'
> > also note that my boot option is set as follows:
> >
> > boot=/dev/hda
> >
> >
> > I can still get Linux to boot fine.
> >
> > help?
> > thanks,
> > liz
> >
> > --- Dave Anselmi <anselmi at americanisp.net
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