dual booting with lilo...

[jobberd]

I have a primary partition running windows xp and am going to (re)install debian on a premade logical partition (hda6). I've read up on lilo and I seem to have everything down fine, so Im just looking for confirmation on if my /etc/lilo.conf file will be able to dual boot windows xp and debian.

boot=/dev/hda
delay=25
compact
default=windows
other=/dev/hda1
<indent>label=windows
<indent>table=/dev/hda
image=/vmlinuz #or whatever its going to be, im kinda lost on this point
<indent>label=linux
<indent>root=/dev/hda6
<indent>vga=792 #1024*768*24bit i believe


Is there anything Im missing? Thanks 🙂

 

[AndyHui]

Perhaps you might want to try this instead?

 

[jobberd]

<< Perhaps you might want to try this instead? >>

Shameless plug? 😉 I'd prefer to do it with lilo, if for no other reason than to get some experience with linux. Thanks for the recommendation however, I'll be sure to use it if this experience turns sour 🙂

 

[stirling]

looks good to me, except the 'default=windows' line

 

[jobberd]

<< looks good to me, except the 'default=windows' line >>

😀

 

[jobberd]

^bump^
anyone see anything wrong with it? I don't want to mess up any partitions

 

[Heisenberg]

It looks about right to me. I've included my lilo.conf file for reference. The 'map', 'message', and 'install' lines are optional and shouldn't really matter.

prompt
timeout=50
default=XPloded
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message
linear

image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.4.7-10
<indent> label=linux
<indent> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.4.7-10.img
<indent> read-only
<indent> root=/dev/hda5

other=/dev/hda1
<indent> optional
<indent> label=XPloded

 

[jobberd]

Thanks a plenty 🙂