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| 250041 | 2004-07-05 20:15:00 | I have installed linux mandrake 9.1 on a system running windows 98. It uses lilo to boot up into Linux. I want to change the default so it will boot into windows first. I have tried changing the settings in the control panel in Linux but have made a mistake. It now lists both OS's as the default and still boots into linux. Can someone show me the exact way to go about this as I have not used Linux before. |
mukiduk (1580) | ||
| 250042 | 2004-07-05 22:06:00 | If you have Kde installed, try using kcontrol Go down the bottom to System Administration There should be an option to configure Lilo somewhere in there (I cant remember exactly what in KDE 3.1.x sorry). Click the "Administrator Mode" button and it'll ask you for root's password, type it in and use kcontrol to configure Lilo :-) Hope this helps Chill. |
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| 250043 | 2004-07-12 20:13:00 | Thank you for your help. I have managed to fix the problem now. | mukiduk (1580) | ||
| 250044 | 2004-07-13 03:19:00 | The file which controls this is /etc/lilo . conf . It has a line which says "default=linux " and each OS has a block of lines starting "image= "with one line being "label= "blah"" . If you change such a file, use an editor not a word processor . And /sbin/lilo programme has to be run to make the changes effective . I forget often, after being spoiled by a while using grub . ;-) |
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