LILO Be Gone!

[Marvin Bellamy]

That value isn't arbitrarily "windows" or "DOS".  I'm pretty sure it has 
to be exactly the same as the "label" parameter of your DOS partition 
entry in lilo.conf.  Mine is "Win98" for instance.  Correct me if I'm 
wrong guys.

Jerry Place wrote:

> On Tuesday 16 April 2002 12:28 pm, you wrote:
>
>> I'd like to change something (I don't know what) so that the
>> machine default boots to windows. Anyone know how I can do this?
>>
>
>   Just re-run lilo to point to the label on the DOS partition.  If the 
> label is DOS, like my dual boot, invoke lilo as:
>
>   /sbin/lilo -D DOS
>
> and the default boot image will be DOS.
>
>   Rather than re-install, I'd use Win Partition Magic to re-reorganize 
> and reformat the Linux partitions you want to delete.  This is very 
> easy and saves the Win98 or whatever partition, system files and data 
> files and you get back all of the Linux disk space.
>
>   This gives you an excuse to buy Partition Magic if you don't already 
> own the software.
>