Graeme Orton wrote: > >Hi i have my hard drive partisioned. One for Linux (debian) and the >other for windows. I had lilo configured to load windows as default >and to stop it i pressed 'shift' to boot debian. I recently >installed >windows-xp professional and lilo load has dissapereard and >i cant get in >linux. Does windows-xp pro allow the lilo config >boot? If not is there a way >around this problem?
You need to use the rescue disk so you can access your Linux filesystem then restart lilo to load the kernel into the mbr. Pass the filesystem partition where your root FS resides as a parameter when you boot the rescue disk's kernel. Your debian disk1 can do as your rescue disk (if you didn't make one). However, that would be a problem if you converted your root FS to something like reiserfs or XFS without making a bootdisk for them. If you reboot quite often, get loadlin.exe and copy that file and a copy of your kernel to your XP partition. Should you want to load Linux from your XP session, you need only to run loadlin, specifying the name of the kernel image, the runlevel (should you want to) then the filesystem partition where your root resides. A better solution is to use grub. Allows you to chainload other OS's as well as boot multiple-image kernels like the hurd, as well as multiple linux installs. Paolo Alexis Falcone __________________________________ www.edsamail.com
