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I upgraded to Red Hat 7.3 from 7.1, now Linux is the default OS in Lilo. How do I change it back to Windows?

edit your /etc/lilo.conf file and change the default to the image of your windows image.. usually referred to as DOS.

I tried that already, it doesn't work.

This is the contents of my lilo.conf file:

Code:

boot=/dev/hda

map=/boot/map

install=/boot/boot.b

prompt

timeout=50

message=/boot/message

linear

default=DOS



other=/dev/hda1

        optional

        label=windows



image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-3

        label=linux.bak

        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-3.img

        read-only

        root=/dev/hdb5

        append="hdd=ide-scsi"



other=/dev/hda1

        optional

        label=DOS



image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.18-5

        label=linux

        root=/dev/hdb5

        append="hdd=ide-scsi"

        read-only

        initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.18-5.img

What is wrong with it?

are you running lilo after making changes..

/sbin/lilo

Ahh, the missing link. Thank you, it worked.