On Sun, 9 Jan 2000, Mike Thompson wrote:
> I have 2 partitions. One linux and one windows. The only way that I can get
> lilo to come up is a boot diskete, then it takes 5-10 minutes for linux to
> load. If I don't put in the boot diskete, then my machine auto goes to
> windows w/o a lilo prompt. I can't remeber to well if I put it on the mbr or
> not but is there a way that I can put it in manually? Thanks,
>
Let's say your linux partition is hda2. Boot from a floppy disk. At the
lilo prompt type
root=/dev/hda2
Once the machine is booted, look in /etc/lilo.conf to make sure everything
looks good, then run lilo.
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PEOPLE NOT CLEAR ON THE CONCEPT (OR TECHNOLOGY, OR HISTORY, OR
ECONOMICS, OR CULTURAL LITERACY) DEPT.:
"Well, it seems to me we ought to be encouraged that in the year 1000,
they had to add a new digit, and yet no evidence of economic disruption.
And then a millennium before, we had dates going down, and then they
started going up, and yet no evidence of disruption or chaos in the
economy. So if they could do it then, surely we can deal with it now,
it seems to me."
-- Sen. Phil Gramm, R-Texas, chairman Senate Banking Committee
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