[ILUG] i'm facing some problems with linux please help me (reply assoon as possible)

[gerodonoghue at sigma-sl.ie]

> > On Sun, Apr 22, 2001 at 01:50:19PM +0100, Vincent Cunniffe wrote:
> >
> >
> >>You should install LILO in /dev/hda2, NOT the MBR. Then, you should use
> >>fdisk again to ensure that the second partition, Linux, is the active
> >>on.
> >>
> >>The Linux install will autodetect the Windows install, and offer you the
> >>option of dual booting. When you restart the machine, you should see the
> >>LILO prompt come up. Press tab, and you'll be offered the choice between
> >>linux and dos : pick whatever you want to boot into.
> >>
> >>The reason that you need to put LILO into the second partition is
> >>because Windows installs into the root of the disk, and if you overwrite
> >>it with LILO you will be unable to boot Windows at all.
> >>
> >
> > This is incorrect - LILO installs in the MBR and it doesn't overwrite
> > Windows, only the disk's MBR. If Lilo is installed incorrectly, yes, you
> > will not be able to boot 'doze (or Linux). This, however, is true whether
> > you install it in the MBR or in /dev/hda2 with hda2 as the active partition.
>
>
> What I said was that if you put Linux in the MBR, you cannot boot
> Windows, and that Windows installs into the MBR. Both of these are
> correct to my knowledge...
>
> I didn't say that it overwrote Windows.
>

It depends on the version of windows. NT does not like LILO in the
master boot record. Installing Lilo on the boot partition of linux OS
and making that partition active will work for all flavours of windows
including 2000. This is what your lilo.conf should look like.

boot=/dev/hda2
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
default=linux

image=/boot/vmlinuz
        label=linux
        read-only
        root=/dev/hda2
other=/dev/hda1
        label=win
        table=/dev/hda
This is taken from a system running Redhat and NT2000 Server.

Regards Ger