[ltp] a newbie struggling with LILO

[Katsumi Matsumoto]

I'm having some problem booting, and I am hoping to get an advise from 
someone.

I just recently installed RH8 on my T30.  Having followed the many advises 
posted on the web, I was able to partition the 60GB hard drive, while 
keeping intact the hidden XP recovery partition.  Since I want a dual 
boot, I "recovered" XP in the first partition (also kept the recovery 
partition and made recovery repair disk) and installed successfully RH8 on 
the remaining partitions (/boot, /swap, and /).

Since T30 can have either a CD drive or a floppy drive in the single ultra 
bay but not both, I could not make a boot-floppy for booting linux (I was 
going to do this after booting into linux), because I installed linux from 
CDs.  During the installation, I chose LILO to boot off of and designated 
MBR to install LILO.  I chose DOS as the default OS over linux during the 
boot loader configuration.

Now after the seemingly successfully installation, I turn on my T30, and 
Windows XP comes up.  Contrary to my expectation, I do not get some kind 
of a LILO screen that would allow me to choose either XP or linux.  Why?

Since I could not make a boot-floppy for booting linux, basically I'm 
stuck here...

I'd appreciate any helpful hint to activate LILO.  Should I have used GRUB 
instead?

Thanks,
-Katsumi