Please Help

PacMansRancor · 09-19-2004, 11:48 PM

I have two hard drives, C: and D:. I have XP installed on C: and I tried to install CollegeLinux on D:, I installed the Bootloader (Lilo) and added XP to it. Then at the end of the installation, I reset and it just goes straight to loading windows, as if Linux weren't installed... tried reinstalling several times but always the same result... Any suggestions?

sether · 09-19-2004, 11:54 PM

where are you asking it to install lilo to?

PacMansRancor · 09-20-2004, 12:05 AM

it doesn't ask me where to install it, it only asks if I want to or not, and I choose yes. So I'm guessing it's not installing it to the MBR and the XP MBR takes over automatically?

AAnarchYY · 09-20-2004, 12:13 AM

specify the device on the command line: lilo /dev/hda
just be sure and add your xp boot in there as well

PacMansRancor · 09-20-2004, 12:14 AM

Thanks for the fast responses, how would I go about doin that, my XP OS is on hda and Linux is on hdb1 and hdb2 <-- swap

AAnarchYY · 09-20-2004, 12:24 AM

im not entirely sure but i think the command i gave in my last post is the correct way to install lilo to the mbr so that you can dual boot xp and nix providing you have xp loaded into lilo.conf

PacMansRancor · 09-20-2004, 12:26 AM

ok, one last question. where to I go to execute this command, since I can't get into Linux at the moment, it just boots straight to XP as if I hadn't put linux on the D: drive, so 1. where do I go to put the command in? 2. What do I put in the lilo.conf file when I get into linux?

PacMansRancor · 09-20-2004, 01:19 AM

anyone?

AAnarchYY · 09-20-2004, 01:35 AM

take a look at this article