On Sun, 16 Mar 1997 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm installing Debian 1.2.5 for a friend, on an EIDE disk (pentium > 166). When the kernel was installed and LiLo set up, I indicated that > I would like to boot from /dev/hda2. This was done, and Linux boots > fine from /dev/hda2. > > After the fact, I decided I wanted to be able to boot the windows > partition on /dev/hda1. I (mistakenly) changed boot=/dev/hda2 to > boot=/dev/hda1 and added a stanza:
simplest solution is to just boot linux, edit lilo.conf to change the boot= line back to "boot=/dev/hda2" and run lilo again. leave the rest of the config as is. alternatively, set "boot=/dev/hda" to make LILO use the master boot record. remember to run lilo again after changing this. > Is this right? One part I'm not confident is marking partition > /dev/hda1 as active. Is this necessary? Also, will it confuse the > chaining from MBR? lilo can boot from any partition, whether it is marked as 'active' or 'bootable' or not. for more info, see the lilo documentation. look in /usr/doc/lilo, as well as the lilo man page. there is a lot of excellent documentation for LILO already installed on your system. craig
