[TriLUG] Re: Lilo question

[Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney]

On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 12:31, Roberto J Dohnert wrote:
> How are ya doing.  Well sounds like you gotta hell of a problem right 
> now.  As far as I know there is no cure for your prob yet.  I have heard 
> the Windows 2000 bootloader likes to be on top and doesnt like Lilo or 
> grub,  I had the same problem with my Laptop and the only way I could 

There's a secret to this. 

You can boot Win2K from GRUB with no problems - I do it all the time. I
even boot XP on my laptop from GRUB. But you have to install Linux
*SECOND*.

Now, to recover from what's happened here, you can do the following :

1) Insert the RHL 7.1 CDROM 1 into your CD Drive
2) Boot the installer
3) at the boot prompt, type :
linux root=/dev/[your device]

this should (as I recall) boot Linux with /dev/[your device] as the
root. Now all you need to do is modify lilo.conf to fit your new config
and re-install.

Another option would be to get the 7.2 or skipjack CD set and upgrade
the 7.1 system to 7.2 with GRUB and not have to worry about LILO again.

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