I am dual booting Linux and Windows 98. Win98 was installed in C: and Linux in D:. These two partitions exist on one hard disk. When the PC boots, i get two options to choose from - Linux and DOS. If i am not quick enough, by default it boots up to Linux. How do i configure it to boot up to DOS (win 98) by default instead? Thanks a lot.

On the Linux partition under /etc there is a file called lilo.conf. In that file there should be a line which reads: default=linux change this to: default=DOS That should default the boot option to Windows.

I have tried that but it did not work. Below are the contents of the lilo.conf file. Please advise. Thanks a lot. boot=/dev/hda map=/boot/map install=/boot/boot.d prompt timeout=50 message=/boot/message lba32 default=dos image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.2-2 label=linux read-only root=/dev/hda2 other=/dev/hda1 optional label=dos

Truy changin the timeout value to, say 500 instead of 50, that would not change the default bootup, but would give you a longer time to choose....

It works after i run /sbin/lilo. Did not know i had to do that besides editing the lilo.conf file. :) Thanks.