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Re: Red Hat 4.0 Intel installation!

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (skyrider@minor.stlmo.com)
Wed Nov 20 14:17:30 1996

From: skyrider@minor.stlmo.com
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 1996 14:19:31 -0600 (CST)
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
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In-Reply-To: <19961120025814.AAA18154@lenore>
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It looks like you are trying to boot to a scsi drive, most systems will 
only boot to and IDE first.  Try a boot disk with your lilo on it or 
point to the sda.

On Mon, 18 Nov 1996 p73bm.pressf1forhelp@POSTOFFICE.WORLDNET.ATT.NET wrote:

> I'm having a problem trying to have my machine be able to switch 
> bootups between DOS and Linux. I've installed LILO but the machine 
> keeps booting up DOS instead of Linux. I've already checked the file 
> /etc/lilo.conf and the code points LILO to bootup with Linux but the 
> machine just will not do it! HELP!
> 
> 
> (The /etc/lilo.conf file)
> boot=/dev/sda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> timeout=50
> default=linux
> other=/dev/hda1
>           label=dos
>           table=/dev/hda
> image=/boot/vmlinux
>           label=linux
>           root=/dev/sda1
>           initrd=/boot/initrd
>           readonly
> 
> 
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