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I have w2k isntall on a 20 MB hardrive in my laptop, the partition for windows is only 10 MB and the other 10 is just non-partitioned space. I used ...
- 01-23-2005 #1Just Joined!
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Booting to Linux
I have w2k isntall on a 20 MB hardrive in my laptop, the partition for windows is only 10 MB and the other 10 is just non-partitioned space. I used the free space to install Linux (Red Hat) from a CD and the installation went well, the problem now is that I need a dual boot menu to bring up Linux, otherwise the system will boot to windows directly.
The install guide talks about a program called LILO that suppose to be an option during install tha will provide the dual boot menu, that option never showed during the install. My laptop don't have a floppy drive so booting from there is not an option. Can anyone help? Any ideas.
Thanks
narce.
- 01-23-2005 #2
install lilo! http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/LILO.html
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- 01-25-2005 #3Linux Enthusiast
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I strongly reccomend Grub over LILO, since if you screw up the config for Grub, you can edit it inside of grub instead of having to boot a rescue disk.
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- 01-25-2005 #4Linux User
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Totally agree with that
Originally Posted by Stormblazer
So u should boot on linux (if u can) then from linux install grub not very difficult (Nerdello writes a good tut on this site).
Btw if I remember well RH asks if u prefer grub or lilo so the question of the bootloader has to be asked to u if not, ur cd may be corrupted for example try with a more recent distro like FC 3...


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