Re: win98 doesn't boot after Gnome install!!!

[Brian Masney <masneyb ns newwave net>]

Ugh, I remember doing this about 2 years ago when windows still existed
on my computer. If you want lilo to be loaded from the nt boot menu, you
can do this. Change your lilo.conf boot= line to: boot=/dev/hda1. Change
this partition to whatever your main linux native partition is. You
probably don't want lilo to load any other operating systems....you
can have it all load from (hate to say it) the NT boot menu. After you
run lilo, run: dd if=/dev/hda1 of=boot.lnx bs=512 count=1
Then copy the boot.lnx file to your NT c:\ drive. Edit your boot.ini
(you'll have to attrib -r -s -h it first), and add at the bottom:
c:\boot.lnx=Linux

and reboot :)

Brian

On Sun, 14 Mar 1999, Jan Gentsch wrote:

> Brian Kurotsuchi wrote:
> > 
> > I agree that this certainly NOT a Gnome problem...but we'll help you fix it
> > anyway. :)
> > 
> > The general format for using lilo to boot multiple OSs is:
> > 
> > ------- /etc/lilo.conf -------
> > boot=/dev/hda
> > map=/boot/map
> > install=/boot/boot.b
> > prompt
> > timeout=50
> > image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7
> >         label=linux
> >         root=/dev/hda1
> >         read-only
> > other=/dev/hda2
> >         label=win95
> >         table=/dev/hda
> > ------- /etc/lilo.conf -------
> > 
> > I don't remember (/want to remember?) if this works with NT.  Also, this
> > generic config won't work if you have any of the linux root partition
> > extending past approx. 540MB from the beginning disk.
> 
> Very Important!!!
> This does not work with NT!!
> You need to use the NT boot-loader to boot NT.
> There is information on how to set this up in the SuSE installation
> manual.
> It also states that though this method works it is very inconvenient to
> use,
> so a boot disk might be the best method after all.
> 
> Jan
> 
> 
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