[TriLUG] Re: Lilo question

[John Warf]

I am sort of in the same predicament.  I redid my laptop last weekend to boot
RedHat 7.2.  Well I didn't think I would need windows but it turns out I do.
I installed it this morning without seeing the question the other guy had.  I
took Kevins advice sort of and did an upgrade installation.  I had to install
at least 1 kernel device for it to even touch the boot loader.  I installed a
small kernel piece and then I had my grub back.  My problem is that Windows is
not showing up in the list of items.  So my question is how to make it show up
in the list of installations.

John

Kevin - The Alchemist - Sonney wrote:

> 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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