From: probreak@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (James Michael Chacon) Subject: Re: LILO confusion Date: 21 Nov 1992 02:46:39 -0600
bmyers@shyguy.lonestar.org (bob myers) writes:
>I've just installed LILO on my sls ( 0.98.1 ) system. It looks good, but
>I'm slightly confused by what the docs say...
>Is LILO supposed to allow me to switch between different partitions on
>the same disk? I've went with the defaulted /etc/lilo/install file, since
>I have linux on my /dev/hda2 partition, and ms-dos 5.0 on the first partition.
>Yet, when I try to reboot...the system comes up immediately into Linux.
>When I try to use activate with the following line, nothing seems to
>change:
>/etc/lilo/activate /dev/hda 1
>I still boot in linux. I am going to try downloading the pfdisk.tar.Z
>file to see if BOOTACTI will allow switching to occur.
>I'd appreciate any comments.
>thanks
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>Bob Myers | Soooo many fields.....
When you boot with lilo it will boot up automatically with the first entry
you give it I believe. Or, it may choose the active partition I don't remember
Anyways to make it give you a choice hold down the Alt or Ctrl key after
your system gets done doing drive checks and begins to boot. This will
give you a prompt of
Lilo:
hit tab to get your choices and type in the one you want.
If you haven't read the latex docs you might want to do that also to get an
overview of the entire system. Some of the stuff in the README is outdated
from what I remember.
James