Hai, I recently installed Red Hat 6.0 in my machine which had win 98. I did the installation. All went thru fine. During installation it asked me for creation of boot disk also. When I rebooted it started again win98. When boot with Boot disk it goes to Linux. I want to change it so that it goes directly to Linux from the Hard Drive. How can I change the Boot Sequence, So that I switch on my machine it just goes to linux, instead of requiring a boot disk. Thanks for your help, -Murthy kg_murthy@yahoo.com

You need to install LILO (LInux LOader). It's one of the Linux bootloaders (and the one used by Redhat) which will allow you to choose which OS you want to boot when you start your computer. Read the LILO mini HOW-TO at http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/mini/LILO.html for specific instructions and possible problems. One thing to be very aware of is that there is an issue with older versions of lilo (including the version shipped with Redhat 6.0) regarding large hard drives. Read this article at Redhat's support site: http://www.redhat.com/support/alex/160.html. Overall, I would advise that you get a newer version of Redhat; 6.0 is pretty old.

WHAT IS THE IDEA FOR BOOTING LINUX DIRECTLY ,INSTEAD OF USING LILO AS A BOOTLOADER ? FOR THE ABOVE QUESTION I WANT HINTS TO DEVELOP THE ASSEMBLY OR C CODE FOR THAT. THANKS