Re: LILO Conf

[stnick <stnick slip net>]

Edgardo I. Nazario wrote:

> 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. 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. Here's my lilo.conf:
> boot=/dev/hdamap=/boot/mapinstall=/boot/boot.bprompttimeout=50default
> = linux image=/boot/vmlinuz        label=linux
> root=/dev/hda2        read-onlyother=/dev/hda1        label=dos
> table=/dev/hda
>
> Any ideas?
>
> --Gardy--
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  Doesn't say so in your message, but I assume your computer is booting
directly into Windoze.  This is the problem I had, anyway, after
intalling SCO on one partition, then Win95 on another.  I fixed it by
shutting Win95 down into dos, then doing 'fdisk /mbr'.  Win95 had
flagged its partition during installation in some way so that the SCO
boot manager (which at least *looks* like it behaves in a similar way as
LILO) was completely bypased at bootime.

    -stnick