[wellylug] Newbie help! - LILO

[David McNab]

Since you're learning this from scratch, and aren't yet 'set in your ways', 
you might like to go with GRUB instead of LILO. It's more modern, gives you 
more control and is in some ways simpler.

Good easy spiel on GRUB is in part of the Gentoo manual, at:
http://www.gentoo.org/doc/build.html#doc_chap16_sect7

Cheers
D


On Sat, 09 Nov 2002 20:20, Shroeder wrote:
> Hi all
>
> A bit of background is warranted here (as it's my first post).
>
> I want to give linux a real go, but must acknowledge that I am unlikely
> to have time to learn too much that is non-gui.
>
> The situation is as follows:
>
> I have this multi-boot situation
>
> Win98SE having the basic programs on that my wife needs for work.
>
> To ensure the first OS doesn't get mucked up with either my fiddling, or
> the kids games, the second O/S is also Win98SE
>
> I have a separate partition for data etc
>
> and spare space for linux.
>
> I use XOSL as a boot loader (as it has the ability to hide each Win98SE
> O/S from the other)
>
> This system works well.
>
> A while ago I loaded RedHat 8.0 into my spare space (it automatically
> set up 3 partitions - a boot one?, root and swap).  Because I wasn't
> sure about it at that stage, I opted to boot into this from floppy and
> didn't load LILO or Grub.
>
> Now, as I'm so impressed with redhat 8.0,  I want to load linux using
> XOSL also.  I assume I can load (say) LILO to the small linux partition
> (hda6 from memory) and get XOSL to 'boot' to LILO which would then do
> the proper boot.
>
> If this is correct, how do I get LILO to install onto this partition
> (I'm pretty sure I can get XOSL to access it OK).
>
> Also, as an aside, I have used 'up2date' to update the kernel already.
>  I notice in lilo.conf that I now have more than one option mentioned.
>  Is it correct that I should now be booting to the newer one?  I'm
> pretty sure that using the floppy, I'm still booting to the original.
>
> Thanks for your help (in anticipation) - please be gentle as I look at
> the man pages and at this stage, they often confuse me more than help me.
>
> Shroeder
>
>
>
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