On Mon, Jun 11, 2001 at 04:54:04PM +0000, Anthony Fairchild wrote: | Hello all, | | I recently upgraded all packages necessary to install a 2.4.x kernel on my | Debian 2.2 laptop. After downloading, compiling, and installing the 2.4.5 | kernel I rebooted and was greeted with a screen reading only "LIL-". ... | If anybody knows how to fix this problem I would appreciate the help. Here is | some further information about the setup if any of it is useful. | | Dual Boot Windows 2000 Pro. - Debian GNU/Linux 2.2
I would highly recommend grub. I first tried it on a test machine at work that has Win2k and I was asked to install RH6.2 as dual-boot on it. I tried with lilo first, because it is default. The docs on linuxdoc.org indicate that chainloading windows from lilo is a bit complicated, in addition to the fact that RH was above the 1024 cylinder limit. I then tried grub, just for a change. It is ridiculously simple to chainload any other boot loader (including itself ;-)) and has no 1024 cylinder limit. (I have since heard that the 'lba32' option to lilo also removes this restriction) After that experience I tried grub at home (loadlin run from autoexec.bat even though Win98 was rarely booted anymore) and it worked great. Previosly lilo couldn't boot linux from /dev/hdc. HTH, -D