Benjamin Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> You can actually boot up to four different OSes this way (four
>slots for a primary partition), or three if you have an extended
>partition.
You can install a boot program in an extended partition as well as a
primary partition. (As it happens, I i
>BTW, the order of the stanzas in the lilo.conf file
>determine which OS get's booted to by default.
True, though the "default=" directive works, too...
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BTW, the order of the stanzas in the lilo.conf file determine which OS
get's booted to by default. I've seen some very fancy lilo.conf files that
add menus. The grub/lilo combo that is part of Mandrake has a nice GUI
front-end that makes changing boot order etc.., as simple as clicking a
button. I
Basicly, what I do is have Lilo write to the first sector of the partition
that I installed Linux to and then use either the Linux version of fdisk
or the DOS version to mark the partition as active. It's pretty easy to
add a stanza to the lilo.conf file to allow booting the DOS/Windows
partition.
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Alex Hewitt USG wrote:
> It's interesting that you've been recommending putting the boot record
> into the boot record of the boot partition. That's exactly how I've been
> setting up dual-boot Linux/NT systems.
Well, it was the way the IBM-PC was designed to work, after all
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This shows another piece of my ignorance.
"Ignorance" is a bit harsh... to use your own sig, I think "a lack of
information" might be the better term. :-)
> If you load LILO in the boot record of the partition, does that mean that
> the MBR is lef
It's interesting that you've been recommending putting the boot record
into the boot record of the boot partition. That's exactly how I've been
setting up dual-boot Linux/NT systems. I was just surprised that Mandrake
setup the system correctly by default...
-Alex
Wirth's Law: Software gets slo
This shows another piece of my ignorance.
If you load LILO in the boot record of the partition, does that mean
that the MBR is left as the M$ MBR? In other words, does it only
boot to the partition marked active? Or, can you still multi-boot?
I always avoided this, because I couldn't find out what
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Alex Hewitt USG wrote:
> In the past I've always had to play games to get Win/NT to play nice with
> Linux.
I've always had to play games to get WinNT to work, period. :-)
> Microsoft takes a search and destroy approach to multi-boot systems.
For a change, this isn't Mi
I've installed from a Mandrake distro on several systems. It's based on
RedHat but makes the installation and management of the system a lot
easier. I was impressed that when I installed it on a box that had both
Win 95 and Win2k, it used something called "grub" over Lilo to setup a
multi-boot sys
On Thu, 2 Nov 2000, Kurth Bemis wrote:
Heh - Just a sign of mainstreaming. A good thing, eh? What we should now
hope for is Star Office or a Quake for Linux appearing onthe shelves next
to the Linux releases!
And the money, just like publishing a book ( the manual ). these guys
gotta make a b
a photocopy! wow..you must of gotten the dulx edition...mine was on
masking tape on the back of the jewel case :-)
~kurth
Kurth Bemis wrote:
> true - however have you seen this distro package? i don't think that
> theres much of a manual in there.in any event - what are they
> (users)
true - however have you seen this distro package? i don't think that
theres much of a manual in there.in any event - what are they
(users) going to say when they buy it...install it...wipe thier windows
drive..and then complain to ppl like us ( LUGs ). that often leaves
a bad taste i
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