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- From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: LILO confusion
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 02:46:39 -0600
- Organization: Kansas State University
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- bmyers@shyguy.lonestar.org (bob myers) writes:
-
- >I've just installed LILO on my sls ( 0.98.1 ) system. It looks good, but
- >I'm slightly confused by what the docs say...
-
- >Is LILO supposed to allow me to switch between different partitions on
- >the same disk? I've went with the defaulted /etc/lilo/install file, since
- >I have linux on my /dev/hda2 partition, and ms-dos 5.0 on the first partition.
- >Yet, when I try to reboot...the system comes up immediately into Linux.
-
- >When I try to use activate with the following line, nothing seems to
- >change:
-
- >/etc/lilo/activate /dev/hda 1
-
- >I still boot in linux. I am going to try downloading the pfdisk.tar.Z
- >file to see if BOOTACTI will allow switching to occur.
-
- >I'd appreciate any comments.
-
- >thanks
-
-
-
- >--
- >----------------------------------------------------------------------
- >Bob Myers | Soooo many fields.....
-
- When you boot with lilo it will boot up automatically with the first entry
- you give it I believe. Or, it may choose the active partition I don't remember
-
- Anyways to make it give you a choice hold down the Alt or Ctrl key after
- your system gets done doing drive checks and begins to boot. This will
- give you a prompt of
-
- Lilo:
-
- hit tab to get your choices and type in the one you want.
-
- If you haven't read the latex docs you might want to do that also to get an
- overview of the entire system. Some of the stuff in the README is outdated
- from what I remember.
-
- James
-
-