[ale] Changing default boot OS in LILO

[Steve Jones]

Uh, an important thing...

if you have a "timeout=50" you may have a hard time getting back to linux...
that is only 50 milsec to tell it that you want to use linux and you have to
be in linux to configure lilo.


-----Original Message-----
 From: Jim Popovitch [mailto:jimpop at rocketship.com]
Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 9:51 AM
To: jeff_hubbs at mcgraw-hill.com; ale at ale.org
Subject: Re: [ale] Changing default boot OS in LILO


Jeff, change your lilo.conf to look like this:

boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
other=/dev/hda1
   label=win
   table=/dev/hda
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
   label=linux
   root=/dev/hda8
   read-only

-----Original Message-----
 From: jeff_hubbs at mcgraw-hill.com <jeff_hubbs at mcgraw-hill.com>
To: ale at ale.org <ale at ale.org>
Date: Thursday, May 27, 1999 9:35 AM
Subject: [ale] Changing default boot OS in LILO


>
>
>I looked through various HOWTOs and READMEs but I didn't find the answer to
this
>question:
>
>Ona dual-boot Linux/Win95 machine, how do I change LILO's default boot OS
(i.e.,
>the one that boots when the LILO prompt times out) from Linux to Windows?
>
>BEFORE YOU FLAME ME, consider that since Win95 will probably crash a lot
more
>often that Linux, it would be nice if, when Win95 is up, it rebooted back
to
>Win95 without human intervention.  See my logic?  ;-)
>
>Here is what my lilo.conf looks like:
>
>boot=/dev/hda
>map=/boot/map
>install=/boot/boot.b
>prompt
>timeout=50
>image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.5-15
> label=linux
> root=/dev/hda8
> read-only
>other=/dev/hda1
> label=win
> table=/dev/hda
>
>
>Thanks,
>- Jeff
>
>