lilo

[Riddler]

ok i got lilo but i need to edit the lilo.conf in order to dual boot can anyone with a dual boot into windows please post their lilo.conf so i can see the command scheme. Thanks

[Guest SDMF]

boot=/dev/hda

map=/boot/map

default=linux

keytable=/boot/us.klt

prompt

nowarn

timeout=100

message=/boot/message

menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw

ignore-table

image=/boot/vmlinuz

label=linux

root=/dev/hda5

initrd=/boot/initrd.img

append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi quiet"

vga=788

read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz

label=linux-nonfb

root=/dev/hda5

initrd=/boot/initrd.img

append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi"

read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz

label=failsafe

root=/dev/hda5

initrd=/boot/initrd.img

append="devfs=nomount hdd=ide-scsi failsafe"

read-only

other=/dev/hda1

label=windoze

table=/dev/hda

other=/dev/fd0

label=floppy

unsafe

[Riddler]

thanks i hope it works i'll keep yall posted

[aru]

Apart of using SDMF's lilo.conf as a template you should take a look to lilo.conf(5) man page which provides a windows/linux dual boot explained example.

 

Also, which is your partition schema? because depending on where is located your windows partition you'll need to do more or less work. As an example, two harddrives, Linux in first IDE as Master and M$Windows in first IDE as Slave; As M$Windows wants to be the primary master in order to boot this is how the lilo.conf's windows entry should look like:

other = /dev/hdb1

   label = windows98

   table=/dev/hdb

   map-drive = 0x80

   to = 0x81  

   map-drive = 0x81

   to = 0x80