[3218] in SIPB_Linux_Development
Re: SIPB installer
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kcr@MIT.EDU)
Wed Nov 29 18:08:19 2000
From: kcr@MIT.EDU
To: Riyaz B Bachani <bachani@MIT.EDU>
Cc: linux-dev@MIT.EDU
Date: 29 Nov 2000 18:08:15 -0500
In-Reply-To: Riyaz B Bachani's message of "Mon, 27 Nov 2000 15:45:45 -0500"
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Riyaz B Bachani <bachani@MIT.EDU> writes:
> 1. I was not asked where I wanted lilo installed. It assumed, and
> overwrote my MBR, which is bad when you're trying to use the win2k loader
> like I am. Thus I was unable to use the installer to dual-boot & had to do
> a layered install.
Hmm, that is a bug, however in my experience W2K will chain-load from lilo
just fine if you configure lilo right.
for instance, if your W2K partition is partion 2, put
other=/dev/hda2
label=windows
in your lilo.conf and rerun lilo.
kcr
