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dual booting windows me and redhat linux

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Name: zc
Date: April 23, 2001 at 00:41:02 Pacific
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I've just installed redhat linux 7.0 on my system with windows me. The installation went fine, but windows me alway kick in as the default os, so I can't boot linux without a boot floppy. I installed LILO into the MBR when I was intalling linux, but it doesn't seem to be working.

does anyone know what's wrong?

thanks



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Name: ricardo
Date: April 23, 2001 at 01:54:10 Pacific
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hi,

U alredy tried this,
make a boot disk for linux,
then run as root linuxconf and look for lilo.

or u can try to,
insert ur REd Hat setup CD and run as UPGRADE, install one/any(not relevant) package and on the end say yes to install LILO on ur MBR


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Response Number 2
Name: zc
Date: April 23, 2001 at 09:01:41 Pacific
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Hmm...

I've tried that too. But it still doesn't change the MBR.

Can anyone tell me if windows me stops changes in the MBR.

thanks


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Response Number 3
Name: ricardo
Date: April 23, 2001 at 10:24:09 Pacific
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hhmmmmm...
r u getting a error, when he tries to save to MBR?!

u alredy tried to disable ur anti viruses check on ur BIOSes;)


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Response Number 4
Name: zc
Date: April 23, 2001 at 12:33:54 Pacific
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yeah, the anti virus is disabled.

It doesn't give me any error when I try to install LILO. But it just doesn't work!?


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Response Number 5
Name: Jock
Date: April 23, 2001 at 22:53:27 Pacific
Reply:

Run Lilo after you make the change


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Response Number 6
Name: esu (by Raj)
Date: April 24, 2001 at 11:50:00 Pacific
Reply:

try plain lilo command as root. This will list all bootable OS images. You should see *
next to windows (or whatever label is there)
Now do lilo -D linux. This will make linux as
default boot.

Good Luck.


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