Re: New install of rh 7.3

["David Leathers" <daleathers@earthlink.net>]

Tighe

What I have done in the past when dual booting with win2k is to install RH
and not write lilo or grub to the mbr.  Make a boot disk so I can boot into
linux.  Then boot into linux and edit the lilo.conf file.  This only
involves changing the boot partition to the correct one. hdb6 in this case
of /boot. Then I enter lilo at /sbin to install lilo on the mbr.  Then I
mount a dos floppy and do
"dd if=/dev/hda6 bs=512 count =1 of=/mnt/floppy/linux.bin" .  Then I boot
into win2k and copy the "linux.bin" file onto the win2k drive.  Then I open
the boot.ini file in a editor and add the line "C:linux.bin="Redhat 7.3""
Then I you can use the win2k boot loader to start linux.

This may not be the only way but it has worked ok for me.  But with 7.3
lilo.conf seems to be gone or i can not find it.  I did a locate from root
and it does not show up. So I'm lost?

Hope this explains better what i'm trying to do.

Thanks
David if==512 count=1 of=/floppy/linux.bin
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tighe Schlottog" <emry@icephyre.net>
To: <silug-discuss@silug.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 25, 2002 11:07 AM
Subject: Re: New install of rh 7.3


> david,
> are you needing to edit lilo.conf to add a new kernel or some
> tunable parameters?  you should be able to use mkbootdisk <kernel name> to
> get over that problem.  if you need to tune some things, i dunno what you
> can use for that mkinitrd maybe?
>
> tighe
>
> > I'm trying to set up rh 7.3 to dual boot with win2k.  When I installed
> > 7.3 I did not install lilo and made a boot disk.  Now I need to edit
> > lilo.conf which should be in /etc but guess what it is not there?
> > Not sure if because it was not installed it is not placed into /etc or
> > what.  lilo is in /sbin ok.  My plan is to use the win2k boot loader
> > to boot with.  Do I need to create a new lilo.conf file in /etc or is
> > it located somewhere else? If i enter lilo in /sbin does it create
> > lilo.conf in /etc?
>
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