Re: LILO Conf

[Vidiot <brown ftms COM>]

<I apologize. I wasn't aware that the new beta version of Eudora was sending out HTML messages. Im going to have to revert back to Eudora 3.0.3.

There must be an option that you can set someplace to set the kind out output.
You also need to configure it so that is puts in a newline before the 80th
character position.  Even though it is word wrapping on your screen, it is
sending out the "lines" as one long line, resulting in words being split
in the middle on my text e-mail reader.

<Anyway here's my question:
<
<I have a PC running both Windows and Linux. Everything is working great but I have a problem with the defaul OS on the machine.
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<I want the machines to boot to Linux by default but no matter what I do it nothing seems to work. I've tried using the "default" variable and putting the vmlinuz image first but nothing seems to work. Here's my lilo.conf:
<
<boot=/dev/hda
<map=/boot/map
<install=/boot/boot.b
<prompt
<timeout=50
<default = linux
<image=/boot/vmlinuz
<        label=linux
<        root=/dev/hda2
<        read-only
<other=/dev/hda1
<        label=dos
<        table=/dev/hda
<
<Any ideas? 

Humm, I'm not at home so I can't look it up.  But I run Windoze95 on one
hard disk and Linux on two other hard disks and it boots from the Linux
partition without a problem.  If there isn't an answer before I go home
tonight, I will post what my LILO config file looks like.

Wait-a-sec.  Shouldn't the "label" line come before the rest of the stuff
pertaining to that label?  In other words:

	label=linux
		image=/boot/vmlinuz
		root=/dev/hda2
		read-only
	label=dos
		other=/dev/hda1
		table=/dev/hda


The other problem could be where root is on /dev/hda2.  Keep in mind that
the root partition MUST be within the first 1024 cylinders of the disk.
If any part of / goes beyond 1024 cylinders, all bets are off.  That is
why I have separate disks for Windoze95 and Linux.

In any event, I need to look at mine to really know for sure.

MB
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