On Sat, Nov 14, 1998 at 06:23:56PM -0600, Andrew Ivanov wrote: > Hello all. > I am trying to write my lilo.conf file, since when I was installing Linux, > I decided not to use Lilo, and just boot it from a floppy. > Right now I need to make use of Lilo, so here is my problem: > I got 2 IDE HD's , C and D, hda and hdb respectively > > C contains win95 > D has a small 20M DOS partition, hdb1, and the rest, > about 480M, is a linux partition, hdb2 and hdb4. > > I need to write lilo.conf so that I get a prompt of which OS I want to > load, and make Linux a default one. > I am currently going through all the documentation on the subject, but I > still would like to get some help from those who have done it already. >
Try this: boot = /dev/hda root = /dev/hdb2 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga = normal delay = 50 ramdisk = 0 read-only default=linux image = /boot/vmlinuz label = debian alias = linux image = /boot/vmlinuz.backup label = backup other = /dev/hda1 label = win table = /dev/hda This overwrites DOS's boot loader. The documentation (still) suggests to let DOS load lilo, but I've never had a bit of problem.
