Re: a segue from Lilo to Linux boot

[Alan DeJong <annette@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

>
> So, what is the *first* thing that RedHat does when it comes up?
>
> I see the letters "LI"

> and if my hard disks aren't wacked, the letters "LO" follow

This is one place my computer did mess up!  I wasn't able to boot into
anything, it just sat there at LI and would not move at all, all my
startup disks said that neither OS (Win98 or RH6.0) was there.  So i had
to end up erasing all my Linux partitions and installing win98 over
again. Luckily it kept all my system info and drivers and didn't record
over them.

If this happens again, (when i get brave enough to install linux again)
what should i do instead of installing and erasing everything?

>

> <grin>
>
> That's LILO (duh!), and I figure it reads the command line (or
> times out) and gets the selected (or default) Linux image off
> disk (or the network???idunno???) and loads the image, passing
> various params (from command line or lilo.conf) to it.

-Alan