On Wed, 26 Apr 2000, Raghavendra R wrote:
Thanks for the extensive and very helpful information regarding hard drives and partition. I went ahead and created a primary partition of 990 Megs (C:) with FAT16 type and created an extended partition for the rest of the disk wherein i created another partition of 990 Megs (D: FAT16) and installed Win 95 on the primary partition (C:). I booted thro' Linux Yast and parititioned the extended drive into 3 logical partitions (after D: ) of 4 Gigs, 3 Gigs and 256 Megs for swap. I installed Linux 6.3 on the root paritition of 4 Gigs. I was able to boot from the CD later. I also installed LILO on the root partition of the Linux partition ( 4 gigs).
Now, whenever i boot the system, it goes directly to Win 95. How can i make LILO as the boot manager?? What is the procedure for this??
You were talking about a triple boot with Windows NT added to the above mix. Right now you have a dual-OS system with Windows 95 and Linux. That system works best with lilo bootloader written to the MBR of the disk. However, from what I hear, lilo can't boot Windows NT. Instead you have to have Windows NT's bootloader in the MBR, with an option to start lilo from the boot sector of some partition (usually the linux root partition). If you can use the rescue CD to boot your existing Linux install, you can then change /etc/lilo.conf and rerun lilo to have its boot loader written to another location. I STRONGLY recommend that you have it on a floppy; this will allow you to get into Linux even if the hard-drive bootloading stuff is seriously hosed. You also need it in the root partition boot sector, for when you get the triple boot working (there's nothing wrong with having it in multiple places), and for now you may want it in the MBR as well. Installing or re-installing Win9x WILL clobber lilo in the MBR, so anyone trying to dual-boot with Windows definitely needs lilo on a floppy. I think that installing Windows NT will do the same thing. -- To unsubscribe send e-mail to suse-linux-e-unsubscribe@suse.com For additional commands send e-mail to suse-linux-e-help@suse.com Also check the FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/