stathis....boot into Mandrake with the boot floppy you created
during your original Mandrake install (if you didn't create one
then, you can use the command line utility mkbootdisk to create
one now). After you get booted into Mandrake, edit (as root)
/etc/lilo.conf and change the first line from boot=/dev/hda to
boot=hdax (where x is the number of your /boot partition if you
have one or if not then x is the number of your / partition)
then get into the console mode as root (if you boot straight
into X then either use an xterm and su - to root, or ctl-alt
f2 to a console and sign in as root) and type /sbin/lilo
which will put lilo where it belongs. now BootMagic should
recognise your linux partition.
Alan
stathis gotsis wrote:
>
> i would like to have some info on lilo,i know it is linux bootloader but i
> still have some questions:when i install linux,is lilo only written to the
> primary boot sector?is it written anywhere else except for there?if i
> install windows after linux,primary boot sector changes and in order to
> boot from linux i am obliged to use a boot disc,how do i install lilo after
> installing win without reinstalling linux?and then why can't i boot from
> linux using boot magic after i have installed win,boot magic will not detect
> linux as OS in that case and i have to define the partition where linux is
> but that has no result,what should i do in that case?
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