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Red Hat Linux & Win98 se Boot

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Garra

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Hi pals.

Could you tell me how to make linux display the multiple boot menu for dual booting?

Cause i installed RH 7.0 in one partition and win98 in the other, but it loads win98 by default without giving me a choice.
I dont want to put a diskette everytime i want to load red hat so thats why i want the menu or anything more confortable than that.

Thanks a lot and happy new year!
 
In order to get the boot menu, you need to have lilo or grub (any others?) installed in the MBR of your first hard drive (usually /dev/hda) Assuming you did that during the installation, did you see any errors while installing?
 
And did you install win98 after linux? win98 is very greedy and expects to be the only operating system on a computer. Thus, it will wipe out the master boot record and replace it with its own. It's always best to install linux second, as most modern distributions will detect the existence of another operating system (via the mbr, iirc) and add itself to it.

Now, here is something to ponder. First, 7.0 was considered RH's most embarrassing distribution to date. There is so much errata that it would probably take just as long to download 7.1. If you were to change to 7.1 and have important files in your home directory, just boot up into linux with a boot disk, tar up your /home directory and mv it to the windows partition. Then, install 7.1 and integrate those files back into your filesystem.

If you did install windows second *and* want to keep your 7.0 install, fear not! you can just boot into linux, make the configuration changes to /etc/lilo.cfg and then run 'lilo'. You must remember to run lilo, as that is what writes the configuration to the mbr. I'd post an example configuration, but my linux boxen are dedicated to linux. a simple search on groups.google.com will yield good examples though.

Alternatively, you can look into various third party boot managers, bootmagic, i think one is called? I know the people that make partition magic make a boot manager too.
 
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