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Lilo to boot Mandrake Linux/WinXP
Name: Toby Date: November 9, 2003 at 09:51:33 Pacific OS: WinXP/Linux CPU/Ram: i686 356 MB Ram
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Please refer to this link for more details: http://www.computing.net/linux/wwwboard/forum/22444.html
I'm trying to do the same thing with Mandrake Linux and WinXP. I loaded XP on the first drive (/dev/hdf) a long time ago and don't want to reinstall if possible. I just loaded Linux on the second drive (/dev/hde) yesterday and would like to use LILO to swap OS on demand.
I made the above modification to etc/lilo.conf but lilo does not present the WinXP entry as a selection when I reboot. I switched to grub which does recognize the selection entry, but sends an error message when trying to load WinXP.
Name: 3Dave Date: November 12, 2003 at 06:19:37 Pacific
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After modifying lilo.conf, did you run the lilo command?
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Response Number 2
Name: Toby Date: November 12, 2003 at 08:37:02 Pacific
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I did not run the lilo command. I thought rebooting would execute the command. Do I run the command by entering "lilo" from the command line?
Thanks.
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Response Number 3
Name: 3Dave Date: November 13, 2003 at 01:22:50 Pacific
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Yep....just make sure that you run the command as root.
The one big difference between grub and lilo is that after editing the conf file you have to write it to the MBR with the lilo command but you don't for grub.
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