Hi Shyam,
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I've been thro' the same problem before & got a easy way around it.
Just login as root & edit the lilo.conf file as
#mcedit /etc/lilo.conf (OR by any editor of Ur choice).
But before doing this, U must keep a backup of the lilo.conf file.
Goto the line containing
default=dos ( or the label U've given to Ur Windows partition )
& just change it to
default=lin (or whatever the label U've given to Ur Linux partition).
If the line does not exist(as in my friend's case),add it before the line
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
I think there should be blank line just before the above line.Save it
& run the command
lilo -v
Notice that there should be a * on the line which has Ur default boot
partition,as in Ur case,it should be,among other lines,
Added lin
Added dos *
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Linux India Digest Vol No: 427
Date: Thu, 9 Dec 1999 06:06:55 +0530
From: "Shyam Chander" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: [LI] Problems with LILO
After installing Red Hat Linux 6.1 from the PCQUEST November CDROM, I have
been plagued by a problem. I have both Windows 98 and Linux on the same
hard-disk. Every time I start my computer the Default operating system is
Linux and not Windows as I had selected during Installation. Using
linuxconf, I am able to change this, but when I quit from linuxconf, I get a
warning which says that some driver has a date which is in the future, blah
blah blah. Even though the next time I run linuxconf, it shows windows as my
default operating system, even linux.conf shows the same, but still my
computers boots into linux by default. Even when I tried installing in text
mode, rather than the GUI mode still the problem persists.
Please Help Me
Yours Sincerely,
Shyam
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The ALIENS Group
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