Re: LILO dualbooting Sid and XP
It's really not that hard. Here's what my lilo.conf says (after skipping all of the irrelevant stuff): image=/vmlinuz label=Linux read-only # restricted # alias=1 image=/vmlinuz.old label=LinuxOLD read-only optional # restricted # alias=2 # If you have another OS on this machine to boot, you can uncomment the # following lines, changing the device name on the `other' line to # where your other OS' partition is. # other=/dev/hda1 label=WinXP # restricted # alias=3 After that, run lilo, and you should be good to go. Of course, you should probably have a boot disk handy. :) -- Stephen W. Juranich [EMAIL PROTECTED] Electrical Engineering http://students.washington.edu/sjuranic University of Washingtonhttp://ssli.ee.washington.edu/ssli /"\ || \ / ASCII RIBBON CAMPAIGN || NO ATTACHMENTS X AGAINST HTML MAIL || NO STATIONERY / \ AND POSTINGS|| NO GRAPHICS -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LILO dualbooting Sid and XP
On Sat, 2002-04-06 at 06:30, D. wrote: > Alex, > I think that this is what your looking for. > http://www.computing.net/howto/advanced/linuxnt/ > hth > Don I actually ran across this article last night while I was doing a google search before I actually sent this message. Unfortunately, what it describes is essentially the same setup that I'm using now. What I'd prefer to do is to only have LILO load at system startup. If the NT loader is called AFTER LILO that's fine, but I want to have LILO actually managing my MBR. -Alex signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
Re: LILO dualbooting Sid and XP
On Sat, Apr 06, 2002 at 03:05:32AM -0600, Alex Malinovich wrote: > I've been using the NT bootloader for as long as I've been using Debian > to handle switching between my M$ OS's and Linux. However, since I've > switched to using Debian 364 days a year, this is no longer working for > me. My XP boot partition is NTFS. This means that any time I update my > kernel or update LILO I have to reboot into XP so that I can copy my > linux.bin to my boot drive. It's finally gotten to be enough of a hassle > that I've decided to do something about it. My boot partition is hda1 > (NTFS), and my root partition is hda2 (ext3). Currently, my linux boot > info is in /boot. What's the best way of going about using LILO as my > bootloader instead of the NT bootloader while still having the option of > booting into XP? > > -Alex > > I left LILO for good and moved onto GRUB - I use it on my dual-booting Debian / W2K. It will use a chain loader to boot W2K/XP. Also, you don't have to do anything special every time you install a new kernel since GRUB can read your filesystem, in effect it boots Linux reading the /vmlinuz symlink. There is a sample config file in the deb package - you should be up and running in less than 10 minutes. I think there is also an article either in Linux Gazette or Linux Journal on using GRUB - a search on Google should bring it up. -Andy -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: LILO dualbooting Sid and XP
Alex, I think that this is what your looking for. http://www.computing.net/howto/advanced/linuxnt/ hth Don --- Alex Malinovich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've been using the NT bootloader for as long as > I've been using Debian > to handle switching between my M$ OS's and Linux. > However, since I've > switched to using Debian 364 days a year, this is no > longer working for > me. My XP boot partition is NTFS. This means that > any time I update my > kernel or update LILO I have to reboot into XP so > that I can copy my > linux.bin to my boot drive. It's finally gotten to > be enough of a hassle > that I've decided to do something about it. My boot > partition is hda1 > (NTFS), and my root partition is hda2 (ext3). > Currently, my linux boot > info is in /boot. What's the best way of going about > using LILO as my > bootloader instead of the NT bootloader while still > having the option of > booting into XP? > > -Alex > > > > ATTACHMENT part 2 application/pgp-signature name=signature.asc __ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - online filing with TurboTax http://taxes.yahoo.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
LILO dualbooting Sid and XP
I've been using the NT bootloader for as long as I've been using Debian to handle switching between my M$ OS's and Linux. However, since I've switched to using Debian 364 days a year, this is no longer working for me. My XP boot partition is NTFS. This means that any time I update my kernel or update LILO I have to reboot into XP so that I can copy my linux.bin to my boot drive. It's finally gotten to be enough of a hassle that I've decided to do something about it. My boot partition is hda1 (NTFS), and my root partition is hda2 (ext3). Currently, my linux boot info is in /boot. What's the best way of going about using LILO as my bootloader instead of the NT bootloader while still having the option of booting into XP? -Alex signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part
