> Hi all,
> I am looking into installing Linux on my PC. I have read some documentation
> and have a few questions. What does LILO mean and what is its purpose?
> Next, I would like to have Win311/Win95/WinNT/Linux on one system. I support
> the first 3 in the department I work in and I need to have them on my machine.
> Linux is going on the machine as my project. I have seen people have 3 of
> them on 1 computer but how about 4? If so, what is the most efficient and
> easiest way to do this (HD setup and all that)?
> Thanks and have a great day... Charity.
LILO means LilO LOader. It is a switch which is planted in partition
table for switching between several operating systems.(That is what I
think lilo is.) If you want to configure lilo, edit lilo.conf in /etc,
and read man lilo.conf for details.
this is my lilo.conf
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=100
append="sbpcd=0x630"
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/hda2
read-only
other=/dev/hda1
label=win95
table=/dev/hda
Yours should be something like:
boot=/dev/xxx (depends on what disk you boot up from)
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=xxx(time that you want to keep prompt on the screen)
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=linux
root=/dev/xxx (depends on what partition you have linux boot)
read-only (Root system will be remounted as read-write later.)
other=/dev/xxx (depends on what partition you have windows 95.)
label=win95
table=/dev/xxx (that is where your partition table is)
other=/dev/xxx(the partition you have windows 3.1)
label=win31
table=/dev/xxx
other=/dev/xxx(the partition you have windows NT)
label=winNT
table=/dev/xxx
And by the way, I think you can set it up when you install linux.
Hope it will help
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