lilo boot is a mess how to edit the liloboot scree
Forum: HD Install
Topic: lilo boot is a mess how to edit the liloboot scree
started by: ramaswamyps
Posted by ramaswamyps on Jan. 21 2005,18:35
hd install went alright after 10 tries of partitioning and installing windows 98se and dsl on 1st hdd
i have second hdd hdc1
mkliloboot made a mess of the boot screen.
now i have 6 boot types as per liloboot
once i saw mkliloboot ask which root i want to make lilo
can i make lilo in dos boot also
first time it stoned my win98 boot
now i have 6 boot buttons on lilo screen
only hda1 linux and hda3 windows work
although it shows there is a nt boot on hdc1 it is not booting from there.
what file i can edit to show only hda1 linux and hda3 windows
is there a way make it work the hdc1 nt boot.
liloboot is not accessing hdc1 really
any help on this?
any body has 3 boot system working?
thanks
ramaswamyps
Posted by SaidinUnleashed on Jan. 21 2005,20:02
Use GRUB. Lilo sucks trying to do multi-boot.If you need a grub floppy or CD to get your box booting, you can get some custom Grub disks from < my ftp >.
Otherwise, just apt-get install grub, then google for "grub menu.lst" and make a text file at /boot/grub/ called menu.lst for your particular setup.
It's easy.
-J.P.
EDITUS: Link fixed
Posted by ramaswamyps on Jan. 22 2005,01:42
how do i remove the liloboot from installation-- short of reinstallthe above adv is greek and latin to me
i am still in the stage of teaspooon feeding in linux
i have to do a lot of reasearch in linux commands
where all these files are written i see that i cannot copy save any file in hda2
manually or on hda1
anyway i want to reamove the lilo boot
is there any command for format hda1 hda 2 .i want to delete all in the drives and reinstall.... for simply reinstalling just overwrites the pld one
thanks SaidinUnleashed
i will try the grub
ramaswamyps
