On Tue, 30 Mar 1999, Jeff Hill wrote: > After re-installing Windows95 on a dual-boot set-up, the machine > now boots directly to Windows. I tried booting to Debian from > floppy and then re-installing lilo, but that didn't help -- > machine still goes directly to Windows. I think I need to mess > with the MBR, but not certain how to proceed.
Make sure "boot=/dev/hda" (or your scsi drive, whatever) is in /etc/lilo.conf. I had this problem as well some time back. The original Debian install wrote the MBR correctly, but after that I always wrote to the boot record of /dev/hda4 (my root disk).
