[NTLUG:Discuss] Possible dual boot screw up...

[Wayne Dahl]

Hi again,


>During the Linux (any flavor) install process, you are asked if you want 
>to load linux from either the MBR, or from another partion. IE... /root if 
>you do not
>have a seperate partition for your /boot. If you are using the MBR, then 
>XOSL will overwrite the LILO boot information, and you will not have boot-up
>information available on any other partition. If you installed LILO to the 
>/dev/hda2   aka the /boot partition, then when XOSL starts, run setup, 
>point it to
>the 2nd partition of the primary drive, and lable it LINUX or whatever you 
>want. But you must have installed LILO to that partition.
>
>Another remedy (after you have already installed Linux), is to boot from 
>the emergency floppy you made during install, or the recovery boot disk
>provided with most distros. Once Linux is loaded, edit the LILO config 
>(locations vary) file to reflect hda2 as your boot partition, and then re-run
>/sbin/lilo to re-install LILO to the correct partition.

Ok, keeping in mind that I'm really a newbie at this, I have checked 
everywhere I know to, used find to try to find the lilo.conf file and it's 
not anywhere on the machine that I can find.  Lilo is in /sbin/lilo and 
shows to be installed on the machine, but I can't find the config file 
anywhere.  The man page for lilo says it should be in /etc/lilo.conf, but 
it's not there.  Soooo...now what?  I have no idea what to use to set one 
up from scratch.

Also, how would I know what partition lilo is installed to?  The only 
things I can find about the partitions doesn't tell me what filesystems are 
actually installed there.

Any help would be most appreciated.  So far, all the books I've checked 
have not been much help as they all say to edit the lilo.conf file...that 
doesn't seem to exist!

Thanks again,

Wayne