I actually solved this problem by following someone on the list's instructions: boot from a boot floppy, with the CD in the drive, which then takes you into YAST2. Choose 'boot installed system', which should boot you into Linux, where you rerun LILO, install it back in the MBR, and add a line to your lilo.conf which points at wherever your Windoze installation is. Actually, YAST does all of this for you if you choose 'configure LILO'. The only problem I now have is that when I select Win2000 from LILO, my machine goes moggy and shrieks about a boot sector virus. But if you ignore it, it boots just fine. I find it hilarious that it considers Windoze to be a boot sector virus, so I'm not too concerned :-) ----- Original Message ----- From: <gedi@ntlworld.com> To: <suse-linux-e@suse.com> Sent: Wednesday, February 19, 2003 2:21 AM Subject: RE: [SLE] Cohabiting with Windoze
I have always found that if you boot from the linux installation DVD and go to 'boot installed OS' it then leaves the install manager and boots straight into windows. Where do you specify the option to boot to linux??
-----Original Message----- From: zentara [mailto:zentara@zentara.net] Sent: 17 February 2003 15:56 To: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] Cohabiting with Windoze
On Mon, 17 Feb 2003 14:44:29 +0200 evan@exclusivebooks.com (Evan Morris) wrote:
I then installed Win2000 in the remaining partition.
Whoops.
Now the machine boots straight into Windoze without even asking what I
want
to boot. How do I get it to ask me at startup? Do I have to re-install SuSE? LILO?
Please help.
No problem. Just use the bootable cd to "boot an installed system", and tell it to boot your linux system, then edit /etc/lilo.conf to add a windows partition, then run /sbin/lilo.
image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.20- root = /dev/hd6 label = linux restricted
other = /dev/hda2 label = windows table = /dev/hda password = gatescrap
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