newbie again: installed RedHat but Win ME won't let it even consider booting

[Igor Gueths]

Hi Liz. What did it say about putting lilo in the mbr? It is normal to be able to boot Linux but not win at first, you have to reactivate it later by editing /etc/lilo.conf. You have to tell it where the boot image is for win are and then alias that image to a key such as "2." I don't remember what the image is called for win, but a good tutorial on this is at http://www.acbradio.org/mainmenu.html. Its one in the look at linux series, but I don't remember which one. Good luck,

Igor
----- Original Message ----- 
From: Liz Hare <eh51 at cornell.edu>
To: <speakup at braille.uwo.ca>
Sent: Tuesday, April 30, 2002 2:05 PM
Subject: newbie again: installed RedHat but Win ME won't let it even consider booting


> 
> Hello,
> 
> I managed to install RedHat last night-- several times, in fact.
> 
> I am trying to do a dual-boot with Windows Millenium.  I tried the options 
> of putting the boot stuff in the MBR and the other option-- was that the 
> boot directory?   It didn't like either way.  It didn't seem to fit in the 
> MBR, because it suggested that it might not work and that I better make a 
> boot floppy.
> 
> I am using lilo.
> 
> I have a read a lot of things that have confused me.
> 
> Supposedly, Win ME and XP and maybe some others present problems because 
> they don't have an underlying DOS mode.  I haven't been able to figure out 
> what one is supposed to do about this, though.  If nothing, any ideas about 
> why my installation isn't working?
> 
> I promise once I get this up and running I will stop asking dumb 
> questions!  I've used Unix a lot but never set it up before.
> 
> Liz
> 
> 
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