[ltp] a newbie struggling with LILO

[Tino Keitel]

On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 17:46:10 -0500, Katsumi Matsumoto 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?

Maybe you are also happy if you just press the shift key if LILO
appears. This way you get a prompt. Press the TAB key to see how to
boot linux, maybe you also get a menu to choose what OS to boot.

Regards,
Tino