Linux & 2k Dual Boot problem.

Ivan

Help me

I've recently installed Red Hat 9 along with Win 2k.

I installed 2k first and then installed RH9 as I was told that RH9's boot loader would be much better.

So when I installed RH9 I accidently told the bootloader (Lilo) to write to the primary hard disk instead of the MBR. Now whenever I boot up my machine, I'm confronted with a dirty win 2k boot loader giving me options of 2k or... another copy of 2k, no linux

I've tried repairing RH9 and then changing the boot loader to write to the MBR but no joy

Any suggestions?

flamegrill

did you edit /etc/lilo.conf?

If so, then simply type "lilo".

Paul

nadir

yea , and if that doesnt work, make sure the bootable flag is set to the correct partition, you can do this with fdisk

for example if the disk is on /dev/hdb, (prolly on /dev/hda)

fdisk /dev/hdb

then type p
<enter>

the one with the star is the bootable one, like so

Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hdb1 37135 119150 41335875 7 HPFS/NTFS
/dev/hdb2 * 1 125 62968+ 83 Linux
/dev/hdb3 126 1118 500472 83 Linux
/dev/hdb4 1119 37134 18152064 83 Linux

then type a
<enter>
and choose the correct one

w
<enter>

and then reboot

but flamegrill is prolly right, it may just be a simple lilo.conf prob.

Im been using grub for a while now myself, I cant remember the lilo conf off hand.