[lug] lilo

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Tue Mar 19 06:59:37 MST 2002


On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 06:36:58AM -0700, Dhruva B. Reddy wrote:
> Have you tried it without the "optional" flag?  From the lilo.conf
> manpage, it doesn't seem appropriate to use this for non-Linux systems.

Related to this: does LILO (the installer program) "see" both kernels/bootloaders?
What's the output of running 'lilo' (you _did_ run lilo after installing the system ? :-)
What's the output if you run 'lilo -v 3' (or even higher debugging) ?

 Ralf

> Dhruva
> 
> On Tue, Mar 19, 2002 at 04:02:52AM +0000, quoth j davis:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> > i have a dual boot box....windoz c: is /dev/sda1 linux root is /dev/hdc3
> > linux boots fine, not windoz.i have to use the bios to boot windoz
> > lilo.conf below..Please Help :)
> > 
> > thanks
> > jd
> > 
> > prompt
> > timeout=50
> > default=linux
> > boot=/dev/hdc
> > map=/boot/map
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > message=/boot/message
> > lba32
> > 
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10
> > 	label=linux
> > 	initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-10.img
> > 	read-only
> > 	root=/dev/hdc3
> > 	append="hda=ide-scsi"
> > 
> > other=/dev/sda1
> > 	optional
> > 	label=DOS
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