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Operating Systems Linux Slackware After installing linux cannot boot PC anymore? Post 50895 by woofie on Tuesday 4th of May 2004 10:30:43 PM
Old 05-04-2004
To get a dual boot (windows and linux) you need to edit the /etc/lilo.conf file.

Try adding the following lines into the lilo.conf file.

other=/dev/hda1
label=Windows


Where /dev/hda1 is replace with the Windows partition.

With your second question. When wanting to start linux do you want it to start in a graphical mode or text mode?


Cheers
Woofie

:-)
 

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LILO-UUID-DISKID(8)						lilo documentation					       LILO-UUID-DISKID(8)

NAME
lilo-uuid-diskid - convert boot / root options to diskid and uuid in lilo.conf. SYNOPSIS
lilo-uuid-diskid [-h] [-v] [lilo.conf] DESCRIPTION
This script looks for the boot block device or boot partition and create the right diskid or uuid as boot option. Then it looks for all root partitions and create the right uuids as root options. These conversions are necessary for use with newer kernel (>= 2.6.26) if it use the libata module for parallel and serial ATA interfaces of block devices (i. e. hard disks with IDE or SATA interface, usbsticks). OPTIONS
-h Print a brief help. -v Print verbose messages. EXAMPLES
Lines in the configuration file /etc/lilo.conf: #boot = /dev/sda boot = /dev/disk/by-id/ata-SAMSUNG_SV1604N_S01FJ10X999999 #root = /dev/sda1 root = "UUID=/dev/disk/by-uuid/18843936-00f9-4df0-a373-000d05a5dd44" COPYRIGHT and LICENSE Copyright (C) 2010-2011 Joachim Wiedorn This script is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. On Debian systems, the complete text of the GNU General Public License version 2 can be found in `/usr/share/common-licenses/GPL-2'. AUTHOR
lilo-uuid-diskid was written by Joachim Wiedorn. This manual page was written by Joachim Wiedorn <ad_debian at joonet.de> for the Debian project (and may be used by others). SEE ALSO
lilo(8), update-lilo(8), liloconfig(8) 23.1 2011-03-20 LILO-UUID-DISKID(8)
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