Lilo

Forum: HD Install
Topic: Lilo
started by: Sergio

Posted by Sergio on Mar. 31 2005,02:39

I install DSL in a laptop, I have win XP and need to have both systems in the same machine so I made a partition for DSL.

When the machine starts lilo works with no problem and DSL starts

I edit lilo.conf and uncoment the option for other OS

other=/dev/hda
label=Windows

then I ran lilo and it says
Added Linux *
Added Windows

But when I reboot there is no options to choose from.

How can I solve this ?

thanks.

Posted by mikshaw on Mar. 31 2005,03:22

I don't know if this is the answer, but "/dev/hda" is the full drive. You need to specify a partition, such as "hda1".

Posted by adraker on Mar. 31 2005,04:38

Tab might be needed....
or is that Grub?

Posted by Waterns on Mar. 31 2005,16:03

Mine will only say:

"Added Windows*"

And then I go and use lilo to boot linux or Windows my choice.

Posted by jshaw on April 01 2005,05:02

Sergio, you need to add

prompt

somewhere in there. I was having problems with my dual boot until I found that out.

here's my lilo.conf as a sample:

Code Sample

lba32 #enable large disk support
timeout=30 #wait 3 seconds before auto-booting
prompt
default=DSL
vga=791
boot=/dev/hda #put boot loader in MBR of target disk
root=/dev/hda1 #set root to be partition of target disk
image=/mnt/hda1/boot/linux24
label=DSL
initrd=/mnt/hda1/boot/minirt24.gz
read-only
APPEND="ramdisk_size=100000 init=/etc/init lang=us apm=power-off hda=scsi hdb=scsi hdc=scsi hdd=scsi hde=scsi hdf=scsi hdg=scsi hdh=scsi nomce dma quiet frugal BOOT_IMAGE=/KNOPPIX/KNOPPIX restore=hda1 toram mydsl=hda1"
other=/dev/hda2
label=Windows
optional

josh

Posted by Sergio on April 02 2005,04:50

Now is working it was my mistake I should wrote the exact partition I reinstall it and put dsl on /hda3.

thanks for the help