NoIsY_LiGhTnInG Posted December 28, 2003 Report Share Posted December 28, 2003 I just recently installed mandrake 9.1 on my primary hard disk after partitioning it for that reason (i previously have mandrake on a 2nd hard disk) It installed ok, and runs fine, but my main problem is the bootloader. I have a duel boot with winXP pro, and i would like winXP to be the primary OS whereby i dont have to select it, but it will just load winXP if i dont interveen with the bootloader, I did under mandrake set windows to the default OS, but its still loading mandrake if left on its own. Please help, i am only starting out on mandrake, and windows is my main OS for the time been, and as a result, its getting a little annoying sometimes when i arnt watching the computer boot to have to manually step in and select windows. Thankyou all in advance Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted December 28, 2003 Report Share Posted December 28, 2003 Go into your Mandrake Control Center, Boot, DrakBoot, modify Lilo/Grub, configure, okay, DrakBoot again, Windows modify, check default. Save and that should do it. It that's what you tried and for some reason it didn't work paste the contents of /etc/lilo.conf. And welcome to the board! :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 28, 2003 Report Share Posted December 28, 2003 if I remember corrrectly mcc>Boot>DrakBoot didn't work in 9.1 till you got all the updates, and even then?....not sure? It didn't run lilo after changes, making changes pointless/null. Either get the updates at the tune of 350MB or more or do it manually. We can help with that if you need it but as mysti says we'll need you to post /etc/lilo.conf ....and welcome to the board. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoIsY_LiGhTnInG Posted December 28, 2003 Author Report Share Posted December 28, 2003 i assume what i have below is what you need, after reading the two replies above, the update process isnt viable, as i am on dial-up, but hopefully what you need is below boot="/dev/hda" map=/boot/map keytable=/boot/uk.klt nowarn message=/boot/message menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw timeout="0" default=WindowsXP image="/boot/vmlinuz" label="linux" root="/dev/hda5" initrd="/boot/initrd.img" append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet" vga=788 read-only image=/boot/vmlinuz label="linux-nonfb" root=/dev/hda5 initrd=/boot/initrd.img append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off" read-only other=/dev/hda1 label="WindowsXP" table=/dev/hda image="/dev/hda1" root="/dev/hda5" initrd="/boot/initrd.img" append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet" image="/dev/hda1" root="/dev/hda5" initrd="/boot/initrd.img" append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet" image="/dev/hda1" root="/dev/hda5" initrd="/boot/initrd.img" append="quiet devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off" image="/dev/hda1" label="" root="/dev/hda5" initrd="/boot/initrd.img" append="failsafe devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off" read-only other=/dev/fd0 label="floppy" unsafe image="/boot/vmlinuz" label="failsafe" root="/dev/hda5" initrd="/boot/initrd.img" append="devfs=nomount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off failsafe" read-only Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bvc Posted December 28, 2003 Report Share Posted December 28, 2003 open any terminal (konsole, xterm, rxvt, aterm, Eterm) su to root and do lilo -v. Like su <hit Enter> type_roots_passwd <hit Enter> (when you type you will not see anything) lilo -v <hit Enter> reboot and see if xp is the default. It appears ,as I thought, that the edit was done but lilo was not ran afterwards by DrakBoot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iNFERiON Posted December 29, 2003 Report Share Posted December 29, 2003 yeah for some reason the Control Center didn't work for me neither, while it did on a previous installation, but well "gedit /etc/lilo.conf" does the trick too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NoIsY_LiGhTnInG Posted January 1, 2004 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2004 I do thankyou all for your helping me, and sorry for not getting back to you before now, but with xmas and new years been slight more busy than normal. Still have the problem, but with a difference now, when i log off from within linux and go to the reboot option, i get the following I know its not the best image, but its basically the correct config that i want for lilo, so i know what i have done it right, but when i boot up the system, i am still getting the old config.. below Which suggests i have done something wrong... any idea's Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cannonfodder Posted January 1, 2004 Report Share Posted January 1, 2004 Not sure about this.. but timeout="0" should be timeout=0 Might want to give it some larger value so you can hit the spacebar real quick. Also, you can remove all those extra entries and leave only the WIndows XP and Linux entries. Just backup the file first so you can get to them if you should need them (never have myself). Finally, try doing a search for lilo.conf timeout to find postings where people have posted their lilo.conf file.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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