lilo.conf file review

[Marvin Bellamy]

I am speaking from very little experience, but I just installed Mandrake 
8.1 and I wonder about this snippet:

other=/dev/hda1
    label=Windows Me
    table=/dev/hda

I was manually tweaking my lilo.conf and I had to remove the 
table="/dev/hda" line altogether to boot windows.  This wasn't based on 
intimate knowledge of the parameter, but by copying from a know, working 
lilo configuration.  Just keep that in mind if you have future problems.

Eric Gilliland wrote:

> Hello Everyone,
>
> I am editing my lilo.conf file after upgrading from Mandrake 8.0 to 
> 8.1.  Will someone who had a moment please look at my file and see if 
> it looks OK?  I have pasted it below.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> Eric Gilliland
>
>
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> vga=normal
> default=linux
> keytable=/boot/us.klt
> lba32
> prompt
> timeout=300
> message=/boot/message
> menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
> other=/dev/fd0
>     label=floppy
>     unsafe
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
>     label=Mandrake Linux 8.1
>     root=/dev/hda5
>     append=" devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi quiet"
>     vga=788
>     read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
>     label=linux-nonfb
>     root=/dev/hda5
>     append=" devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi"
>     read-only
> image=/boot/vmlinuz
>     label=failsafe
>     root=/dev/hda5
>     append=" devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi failsafe"
>     read-only
> other=/dev/hda1
>     label=Windows Me
>     table=/dev/hda
>
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