Boot loaders

[Ronald Maggio]

On Monday 18 February 2002 00:38, you wrote:
> Ron,
>
> I dual boot my workstation also.  Gotta keep Windows around till Wine will
> play all the games I like ;-)
>     At any rate, I still use LILO.. of course I have been running fine for
> about 2 years on a nice stable install/customization of Mdk 6.5.  I have
> that on my workstation and my fileserver.  I have a crash box that I have
> been playing with new distro's on, but I have found that I REALLY have to
> remove a lot of junk from the 7.2 and 8.x versions of mandrake.  Personally
> I cannot stand Aurora, I like to see what is happening at bootup (successes
> or failures).. of course there is the option to disable it, but it took
> some time to find the right spot for that.
>     As far as Grub, I have never used it really, I guess I have messed with
> LILO for so long that it just comes naturally.
>
> Here is a copy of my /etc/lilo.conf file for your reference.  You will
> notice that I have Winblows installed on my first hard drive /dev/hda1 and
> Linux installed on /dev/hdb1
> I also have installed LILO to the MBR of the primary hard drive.  I have
> heard of others having to create small partitions on their primary drive to
> install LILO under 1024 cylinders, but since I have an 8GB and 7GB hard
> drives, that does not apply to me.  If you have like a 20GB hard drive
> there may be other parameters that you will have to have or take into
> consideration.
>
> boot=/dev/hda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> default=linux
> timeout=50
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.13-4mdk
>          label=linux
>          root=/dev/hdb1
>          read-only
> other=/dev/hda1
>          label=dos
>          table=/dev/hda
>
> Hope this helps ya,
> Chaz®
>

Thanks for the info I'll keep the group advised as to my success or failure.

Ron