dual boot question. .. .again
hi, im sorry to post this but i couldnt find any specific answers to my problem when i did a search.
i want to set up my laptop partitions in the following way: - hda1? 1st. windows xp swap space SET AS BOOT in cfdisk - hda2? 2nd windows xp - hda3? 3rd linux swap - hda4? 4th linux / first, tell me if thats a good setup, also tell me which partition i should make boot in cfdisk. ive tried this once already and i installed winxp first, then slackware 9.1. what happened was i installed lilo boot in the MBR and after slackware installation was done, i rebooted and lilo bootloader came up. i could only see the linux option. i couldnt see the DOS (windows option). now, ive read that i need to add this myself in the lilo.conf but i dont know how. can some1 please give me a step by step walkthru to get this working? thanks... |
"can some1 please give me a step by step walkthru to get this working?"
Add these paragraphs to your /etc/lilo.conf: Code:
other = /dev/hda1 |
i've been using slack solid for a while now, i've jumped around from different distros (so far slack is my favorite) and i haven't found any good refference towards lilo. I've used the Lilo editor that comes with kde, but I want to get the feel of doing it my self...anyone know of any documentation online i could possibly find to better understand whats going on in lilo.conf?
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the first things to look at would be
man lilo man lilo.conf info lilo |
quatsch: thanks :)
<~~ feels stupid |
is that all i have to do? just add those 2 parts to lilo.conf?
what about the boot active partition? which of the 4 partitions should be the boot? (i dont even know what it means to be boot, but it appears in cfdisk). |
I don't think it matters which is set to be active.
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