Re: why the different liloconfig?

1997-11-09 Thread Carey Evans 
Ken Deboy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> I just installed a base Debian system from floppies on a machine that
> shares MS-DOS. When I run liloconfig, the only options it gives me are 
> to boot the "other" OS (MSDOS in my case) or Linux by default.

[snip]

You will probably need to edit /etc/lilo.conf yourself.  First, make
sure you have a boot disk so you can get Linux going again if
something doesn't work.

Now, run liloconfig again and tell it to boot Linux.  Then edit
/etc/lilo.conf.  Add the line "prompt" before the first "image=" line,
the at the end put something like:

other=/dev/hda4
  label=DOS
  table=/dev/hda

Where /dev/hda4 is where DOS is.  (DOS fdisk calls /dev/hda4 partition
1 in my experience, which is why I have that there.)  Save it and
finally run lilo to install it again, then test it because I haven't.

Now read `man lilo' and the docs in /usr/doc/lilo/ and work out what I
told you to do.

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why the different liloconfig?

1997-11-09 Thread Ken Deboy 
Hello,
I just installed a base Debian system from floppies on a machine that
shares MS-DOS. When I run liloconfig, the only options it gives me are 
to boot the "other" OS (MSDOS in my case) or Linux by default. The first 
time I set it to boot Linux by default and found I couldn't get it to
boot MS-DOS. So I re-ran liloconfig and set it to boot DOS by default.
So now 
if I want Linux I have to remember to press the shift key while it
boots, 
then 3 at the "1234F:" prompt. What I really want is to just turn the
thing 
on then have LILO give me a choice of which OS to boot and booting a
default 
if I don't respond after a certain time like my RedHat system did (the
version of liloconfig they have offers options like this). Can you
please tell me how
to set up lilo to do this under Debian? Thank you.

Ken Deboy
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