Problems with LILO... Installing Debian (potato kernel2.2 v6) for the first time, I went ahead and put LILO in the MBR, assuming this would give me the convenience of choosing which OS to boot, as did the modified version of LILO that ships with Mandrake.
Here are my partitions for reference: /dev/hda1 FAT32 /dev/hda5 Linux swap /dev/hda6 Linux /dev/hda7 Linux /dev/hda8 Linux swap /dev/hda9 Linux Debian resides on hda5 and hda6, and Mandrake on those after. hda7 is the boot partition for Mandrake. Unforntunately, I assumed wrong. I did mount my other partitions, Windows and Mandrake, and the files are accessible through Debian. I also reinstalled Debian and chose not to install LILO to the MBR which did what I thought - it left a 'confused' LILO in the MBR. So now, when I boot from the hard drive, the following appears on the screen: LILO Loading ... LILO Loading ... And nothing after that. No big problem there, though, as I can boot from the boot floppy. I would like to boot into windows or mandrake. Of course, the simplest thing would be to install Mandrake over Debian, placing Mandrake's version of LILO in the MBR and then reinstalling Debian, this time not messing with the MBR and choosing to boot from a floppy. I do not know what kind of effect this will have, however, and would like to avoid the trouble of a double reinstallation, if at all possible. Is there any way for me to just install Mandrake's LILO into the MBR as the system is now, or make some modifications to Debian's LILO to allow me to choose which OS to boot? __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? LAUNCH - Your Yahoo! Music Experience http://launch.yahoo.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
