[ale] Changing default boot OS in LILO

Michael A. Smith masmith at bsat.com
Thu May 27 11:14:48 EDT 1999


Use the word defualt as in the following:

default=win


Make sure you run lilo to activate the change.....

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-ale at ale.org [mailto:owner-ale at ale.org]On Behalf Of
> jeff_hubbs at mcgraw-hill.com
> Sent: Thursday, May 27, 1999 8:52 AM
> To: ale at ale.org
> 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
> 
> 
> 






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