On Tuesday 24 April 2001 01:59, Ashish Grover wrote:
> i am not doing any re-install nor any new install.
>
> i have installed both windows and linux ............. with /boot partition
> under 8GB
>
> i installed windows first, and linux later................ but i chose the
> option of booting into linux thru a floppy...........
>
> i read somewhere that floppy is not a very reliable source, if u use linux
> frequently................. because of wear and tear problems.
>
> so, thats why i want to configure my sytem, so thats why i want to
> configure lilo so that i have an option in the beginning ........... which
> way to go ......... windows or linux.
>
> can running lilo at the prompt cause any problems ....... whatsoever ????
>
> if i format my hard disk and reinstall windows later......... any problems
> expected...???
Nope - none really. Just read up the lilo and lilo.conf manpages.
Also read up the documentation in the documentation dir. viz
/usr/doc/lilo<whatever> or /usr/share/doc/lilo<whatever> depending on your
distribution...
Edit the /etc/lilo.conf file and make sure everything is in place.
Also, if possible, try to install lilo in the /boot partition or the root
partition. If possible don't use the MBR, because if you reinstall Windoze
(who doesn't? :), it will go and overwrite the mbr, which will overwrite
lilo. If you put it on the /boot partition, just go and set the /boot
partition as active and everythign should work fine. If you do a windoze
reinstall, no probs - all you need to do is go and reactivate the /boot
partition. This can also be done from a windows fdisk.
-Faisal.
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