Re: Installation - Upgrading Boot Loader

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Your lilo.conf seems to be missing the boot entry to boot FC1.

This is what my lilo.conf looks like:

--- begin lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
prompt
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
root=/dev/hdb3
vga=791

other=/dev/hda1
   label=Windows98
---end

This is what lilo.conf could look like:

prompt
timeout=100
default=2.4.22-1.2115
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
vga=0x317


image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl label=2.4.22-1.2115 append="root=LABEL=/" read-only initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img

other=/dev/hda1
    label=Windows98

the first entry is to boot FC1, which is made default. If you
would like Windows to be the default, replace default=2.4.22-1.2115
with default=Windows98. Make sure /boot/vmlinuz-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl
and /boot/initrd-2.4.22-1.2115.nptl.img are in place and that your
Root-filesystem is labeled correctly. To check that use: e2label /dev/hdaX
where X is the number of your root-partition.

If unsure, you could make a backup of your MBR with

dd if=/dev/sda of=bootsek_backup bs=512 count=1

before calling lilo to write the new MBR.

I would recommend to use grub instead of lilo as grub is a great improvement
against lilo.

Andre




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