Hi, I did it according to Your advice. It worked fine.
So I can recommend this lilo.conf file to the others who have got dos on the 'first' (=C in dos) hardisk and linux on the 'second' harddisk. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ____________________________________________ On Tue, 11 Jul 2000, Tom Pfeifer wrote: > virtanen wrote: > > 1) > > My machine has got the following OS's and hd's: > > > > On the hda there is win98 and on the hdb there is 'debian' slink. > > The machine bios cannot boot from hdb. > > > > 2) Is it possible and safe to install 'lilo' so that I can boot both the > > OS directly from the hard disks? > > > > Questions: > > > > a) > > How should the lilo.conf file be written? > > > b) > > Is it possible to get lilo 'out from the mbr' (the previous situation > > restored) just by 'lilo -u' command if something goes wrong? > > > Yes, no problem. You can use essentially the same /etc/lilo.conf as > Johann did, with a couple of possible changes: > > 1) His root partition is /dev/hdb2. Just substitute yours in the "root=" > line. > 2) If you're running slink, you have the old Lilo, so the "lba32" line > is not valid. You don't need that anyway if your root partition is below > 1024 cylinders. > > Here's a start: (I added a couple of minor things) > > boot=/dev/hda (install Lilo in MBR) > compact > install=/boot/boot.b > map=/boot/map > prompt > timeout=100 > vga=normal > image=/vmlinuz (assumes this is where your kernel is) > root=/dev/your_root_partition > label=Linux > read-only > other=/dev/hda1 > label=win98 > > Look at the file /usr/doc/lilo/Manual.txt for explanations of options, > or to find others you may want to use. > > Lilo automatically backs up the sector that it replaces when you run the > 'lilo' command. 'lilo -u' will reverse that process, and put back > whatever was there before. However, unless you specify otherwise, it > will only make the backup the FIRST time you install lilo to any > particular location such as /dev/hda. It names the backup file according > to where Lilo was installed and keeps that file in /boot. > > So in your case where you're installing to the MBR (boot=/dev/hda), the > original MBR that you replace will be the one that 'lilo -u' will put > back. In other words, you can install Lilo a 2nd or 3rd or 4th time to > the MBR if you want to tweak things, but still be able to restore the > original MBR with 'lilo -u'. > > Again, see /usr/doc/Manual.txt or 'man lilo' for more info.
