[ltp] a newbie struggling with LILO

[ravi channavajhala]

So what if you dont have a boot floppy?

There are several recovery images available on the net
(get them from redhat site), download these images,
run rawrite (provided as a separate utility) from XP
to copy these images to floppy.  Boot from this
floppy, mount your /dev/hda[x] on /mnt/sysimage or
something like that.  chroot to this dir, look at your
lilo config.  Reinstall lilo, if needed.  Better yet,
install grub and make it your bootloader.

regards,
-ravi

Disclaimer:  I've not used XP, I still use NT-4.0 on
my dual booted T20. 

--- Katsumi Matsumoto <kmatsumo@splash.princeton.edu>
wrote:
> 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
> 
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