Re: Lilo & other problems

["A. Konstam" <akonstam trinity edu>]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2001 at 01:33:08AM -0800, J. Dow wrote:
> From: <Anders.Karlsson@liv.se>
> 
> > I have some knowledge of NT/2000 but I am kind of new to linux and need some
> help.
> > Bought RedHat 7.0 and got started.
> >  Installed with LILO on MBR and this worked fine but now it fails to boot.
> > All I can see know at boot time is LI (two first letters) and there it stops.
> > The first partition /dev/ida/c0d0p1 contains the Compaq configuration utility.
> I updated this Compaq specific partition and maybe that explains why I have
> problems. Have a boot floppy though, but it takes a LONG time to boot this way
> and I of course want to reinstall it on MBR.
> 
> NT still boots? Amazing! I do it a different way. I install lilo to the Linux
> /boot partition on the disk. Then I use "dd" to create a copy of block zero of
> that partition, "dd if=/dev/hdb5 of=bootsect.lnx count=1". Then I mount a DOS
> disk and copy this file to the disk. I reboot. I copy that file into NT's
> C: directory. Then I edit "boot.ini" to point to this file something like:
> C:\bootsect.lnx="Linux"
> 
> So booting is two steps via ntloader then lilo. That is the safest way I
> found for setting up the dual boot.
> {^_^}
> 
We have 50 machines that boot w2k and Linux through lilo. This is no problem at all.
Below is a sample lilo.conf
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boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
message=/boot/message
linear
default=linux2

image=/hda3/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
        label=linux
        initrd=/hda3/boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
        read-only
        root=/dev/hda3

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.16-22
	label=linux2
	initrd=/boot/initrd-2.2.16-22.img
	read-only
	root=/dev/hdb1

other=/dev/hda1
	label=w2k
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Aaron Konstam
Computer Science
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