Re: [Sheflug] Newbie again - help needed!

[Richard Lowe <nospam [at] Btinternet.com>]

* Craig Andrews (craig [at] fishbot.org.uk) wrote:
> You probably did one of three things (both related to LILO config)#
> 
> a) Selected install LILO to floppy
> b) Selected install LILO to partition
> c) Did not install LILO at all
> 
> It seems many distros default to some strange setting such as install to
> floppy. This is sensible, because it lets you get up and running without
> potentially damaging your boot sector, but can be rather confusing!

Not as confusing as defaulting to install to partition.. where at first
glance you expect it to be what you want.

*remembers doing that back in the day.

> What you could do is this... stick in the boot floppy/CD and boot to the
> LILO prompt, then type:
> 
> linux root=/dev/hdb1
> 
> where /dev/hdb1 is the root partition you installed to.
> 

Its worth mentioning here, that you could get a whole load of warnings
at this point, but everything should work ok.

(most pertaining to modules)

> Then, use linuxconf or something to set up LILO to boot from the MBR of
> /dev/hda and your away!
> 
> Any trouble, just shout
> 
> Craig
> 
> On Tue, 29 May 2001, Ruth Gunstone wrote:
> 
> > hello again,
> >
> >
> > Have built new PC (850 Duron, QDI mainboard, 128MB RAM), with 2 x 10GB HDDs.
> > Have installed Win98 (spit!) to the primary drive.
> >
> > Attempted to install R/H Linux 7 to second HDD (Primary Slave).
> >
> > Went through install process - seemed to go o.k., until it had finished, and
> > needed to reboot. This it did, but promptly booted into Win98 - no option
> > presented (no LiLo?).
> >
> > Presumably I've done something cpmpletely wrong!
> >
> > Am I wrong in thinking I can have Windows on one drive, Linux on the other,
> > and choose my OS at boot-up?
> >
> >
> > bewildered of stocksbridge . .
> >

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