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Article #67Re: Red Hat 7.0 & Lilo
From: Theng Ung
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 06:50
Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2001 06:50
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Hi Eric, Yes, It is now up and running. But I had to install Red Hat again as I had to create a boot disk. and modify lilo.conf and add another line to boot Windows 2000. Many thanks for your help. Theng "Eric" <scare.crow@oz.land> wrote in message news:9aa0fq$4tn$1@porthos.nl.uu.net... > > Eric, thanks for the response. > > I believe I put lilo in Linux partition which is on /dev/hda2. > > then it will indeed not boot, as that is beyond cylinder 1024. > The default DOS MBR probably cannot access that region. > > > I can get Windows 2000 to boot again when I mark it's partition active. > > that's at least a good thing. > You can use the nt loader to boot linux too if you like. > (I never tried this, I always use LILO as the main bootloader, but there's > a good howto on the subject) > > > I have a linux boot disk, how do I use it to boot and be able to edit the > > lilo.conf in the /dev/hda2 partition? > > just put the floppy in, and reboot. It will use the partitions you defined, > so > no worry, you'll be able to correct them once you booted from floppy. > > Eric > > >
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