On Thursday 26 September 2002 4:49 pm, Anand Parikh wrote: > On booting up with Win98 on HDA and Linux on HDB it goes to Win98 without > any choice.
Not sure what you mean - have you used the prompt timeout=50 type command (this prompts with all the possible boot options and waits 5 seconds for a key press before continuing to boot the default image) and the default=Linux where Linux is the label on the stanza that boots linux If I disconnect HDA, LILO tries to start booting Linux but > doesn't go anywhere (due to boot=/dev/hda ??). > Looks like catch-22 trying to switch around...How do I get around it? I think maybe you should boot linux from floppies, mount your linux root directory on /mnt (or whatever) and lilo -r /mnt does a chroot to /mnt before running lilo, thus allowing you to install lilo on a different device from the current root. [As an aside, I went back and checked a lilo script I had for making a bootable floppy disk. I mounted the image on /dev/ram and then ran lilo on it. In that case the I had boot=/dev/ram but root=/dev/fd, so it is possible to run lilo in an environment which is different to that in which you are ultimately going to use the device. I think this relates to that fact that you are writing a bootstrap to a device (/dev/ram) and when it runs it will have to look on another device within the context of when its running for the root (/dev/fd)] -- Alan Chandler [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
