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I got a LILO question
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| Boulware5 2002-11-22, 9:35 pm |
| LILO is supposed to be installed to the MBR unless you have Windows 2000/XP in a dual boot. One of my Linux+ books says to install it on the first sector of your root partition when another boot loader is used (like 2000/xp). However, another book says to install LILO in the boot partition when another boot loader is used. It seems more logical to install it in /boot rather than /. Which is right or will it work with both? | |
| Zinji 2002-11-22, 11:28 pm |
| During the Red Hat install, if I remember correctly, the options are either on the MBR or the root (/) partition. And the more I think about it, yes, it would be logical for it to be in /boot - which is exactly why it's not.  | |
| tabath 2002-11-23, 3:39 pm |
| As far as I am aware it depends on which order ypu install the operating systems. If win xp is already there it should be in the MBR | |
| Boulware5 2002-11-23, 3:41 pm |
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Originally posted by tabath
As far as I am aware it depends on which order ypu install the operating systems. If win xp is already there it should be in the MBR
Nah...According to the books it should not be in the MBR if there is an operating system with a boot loader already on there. | |
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| For dual booting, you do not install the boot loader on the MBR if you already have 2000/XP on the system. | |
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| Well, it's just a question of terms !
On your mbr, you'll have your loader stage 1, whatever it is, which will be able to locate which partitions are avalaible on your disk, and which system is launchable (or are), and then pass to the stage 2 which will contain more details (such as logical partitions details, boot arguments and so on).
If you have a Zdoz loader and want to keep it (adding in it you Linux partition info), you'll set the lilo stage 1 on your root linux partition (which'll be /), and stage 2, which is the main working part, will be dependently set to /boot. Choosing this option in the Red Hat install will get the system do it by itself, and you'll se the result on booting (but modify your boot.ini consequently, as Zdoz won't try to detect extx (2 or3) partitions. | |
| ruscorp 2002-11-24, 1:15 pm |
| I triple boot between 2000 Pro/XP Pro and RedHat 7.2. The RedHat 7.2 resides on the first sector of my root partition to "play nice" with Windows. | |
| drdirt 2002-11-30, 1:37 am |
| Doesn't NT/2000/XP puke on boot if called by Lilo?
I thought the convention was to use the MS loader (isn't that still called NTLoader?) to call all MS and non-MS OSs on boot.
This is how my one 2000Pro/slack-Linux boots and it is how both my NT/debLinux and my NT/freeBSD servers boot. Yeah, servers that dual boot - its a lab thing.
And they been doin' it for a couple years...
mostly.
drdirt
moderate user, I'm cutting down, no more than one boot a week. | |
| ve6hf 2002-12-01, 12:39 pm |
| I've had two system configurations. Both with Windows 2000 Pro installed first.
When I was RH 7.1 I used LILO and installed it on the MBR. Booting up in either OS was a dream. When I got RH 8.0 I installed GRUB on the boot sector. No problems at all.
When in doubt make a MS boot disk and a Red Hat boot disk (mkbootdisk)
For my kids I had a Win95 partition and installed Rh 8 with grub in the MBR. No problems at all.... | |
| drdirt 2002-12-04, 10:23 pm |
| Thanks, Ve6hf.
Is the username an endorsement of an Abit motherboard? | |
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| Nope! it's acutally a Ha,/Amateur Radio operator callsign. I have not been to active with it the last couple of years.
Never heard of that motherboard BTW.
Next trick is to get my wireless device to work on my kids machine (RH8)
Should be fun! | |
| Mr. Linux Guy 2002-12-05, 2:12 pm |
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Originally posted by ve6hf
Nope! it's acutally a Ha,/Amateur Radio operator callsign. I have not been to active with it the last couple of years.
Never heard of that motherboard BTW.
Next trick is to get my wireless device to work on my kids machine (RH8)
Should be fun!
You can get your HF rig to work with yout Linux machine like me.  |
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