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Is it possible to re-configure LILO to make windows the default OS again?

It depends on which flavour of Linux you are running, but most distros have some kind of gui to do this, or you can edit /etc/lilo.conf by hand. For example, my lilo.conf as follows:

Code:

boot=/dev/hda

map=/boot/map

default="linux"

keytable=/boot/us.klt

prompt

nowarn

timeout=100

message=/boot/message

menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw

image=/boot/vmlinuz

        label="linux"

        root=/dev/hdb1

        initrd=/boot/initrd.img

        append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off quiet"

        vga=788

        read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz

        label="linux-nonfb"

        root=/dev/hdb1

        initrd=/boot/initrd.img

        append="devfs=mount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off"

        read-only

image=/boot/vmlinuz

        label="failsafe"

        root=/dev/hdb1

        initrd=/boot/initrd.img

        append="devfs=nomount hdd=ide-scsi acpi=off failsafe"

        read-only

other=/dev/hda1

        label="windows"

        table=/dev/hda

other=/dev/fd0

        label="floppy"

        unsafe

As you can see, i've highlighted the relevant labels. In my case, I would change the default="linux" to default="windows"

Just remember you can only edit this file as root, and you must run /sbin/lilo to effect changes

Baldrick

if i'm not mistaken, lilo defaults to the first one that is listed in lilo.conf if not specified by a default= option. take a look at this file, and if there is a line that says default=0 then it boots to the first os listed (which is the default lilo option i think) if it says default=1 then it would boot into the second one listed, etc...(this keeps with the computer science convention of counting starting with 0).

hope this helps.