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Hi. I have recently installed mandrake 10.0 OE. Besides not being able to insatll anything (i dont know how) everything seems to be running smothly and i am slowly finding something out (very slowly and very few things). I would like to know how to change my primary boot option from linux back to windows (becuase i dont know how to install anything i cant do any work) and so i need windows where everything is installed and working. I found the lilo.conf file do i simpily change the commands so that instead off
i change it to what? I have looked through the file and the rest of the linux options look similar to each other while the windows one does not look much like the rest
Thx but when i restart and let the counter count out it still boots into linux. Is there anything else that needs to be changed as well? would changing the boot device from hda5 to just hda help?
Thank you so much. It worked straight up once i typed /sbin/lilo. Is the /sbin command a restart command for applications? and if so if i have updated an application and i dont know it how can i get it to restart for the changes to take effect.
/sbin is the directory where the lilo executable is located. It is necessary to run lilo to rewrite the bootloader for the changes to take effect.
With other apps it depends. For apps like apache and samba you can use the control center to start/stop/restart services. It is also possible to start services from the command line.
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