Re: LILO not working in new install
Please see:
ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/mini/Linux+NT-Loader
On Thu, 8 Apr 1999, Igor wrote:
> Hey all,
>
> I just recently decided to switch from Slackware to Debian (better package
> management, among other things), and for the life of me, I can't get the
> Debian distribution to boot up. I installed NT before Debian (maybe a
> mistake, but Slackware was fine with it). When I run liloconfig, it seems to
> add the two OSs (Linux and Windows), but when I reboot, I go straight into
> the NT Boot loader. Has anyone had a similar problem? Any solutions that I
> might have missed? Any help would be great, because bootdisks suck :-(
>
> (as for the lilo.conf file, I've tried a lot of them. I tried the one that I
> had with Slackware, the one that lilo.conf would generate, and evertything
> in between). I'm also not too familiar with the boot structure of debian.
> Slackware doesn't have boot.b or most of the other files in the /boot dir.
>
> Thanx
> -igor
>
>
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