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Top Forums UNIX for Dummies Questions & Answers Dual Boot problem,help!!!! Post 12114 by Mark Detrez on Wednesday 19th of December 2001 11:30:57 AM
Old 12-19-2001
No problem so far.

Linux overwrites the MBR (master boot record) with his own LILO (linux loader). It is now on you for adapting this LILO in Linux so that you can dual boot.

This file is probably located on /etc/lilo.conf

You'll have to know how your Windows partition is named under lilo (fi. /dev/hda1) and the label of the partition (fi. Windows). So the /etc/lilo.conf looks something like this after adaption:

boot=/dev/hda
timeout=50
prompt
default=linux
vga=normal
read-only
image=/boot/vmlinuz.......
label=linux
root=/dev/hda3
other=/dev/hda1
label=nt

I'l hope this was helpfull ...

BTW the example was from RedHat
 

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