LILO, partitions, and the evil that is Microsoft

[Ryan Tauriainen]

I have a computer that uses LILO to dual boot SuSE Linux and Windows 98, and I need to reinstall Windows, but lasst time I did that it wrote over the partition, and I had to reinstall Linux and LILO. Is there a way I can reinstall Windows without having to do all the rest again?

[Idly Vada]

Ofcourse you can!
After installing windows, use your Linux boot floppy or boot cd-rom
to boot into Linux.
Then edit the file /etc/lilo.conf
Add the following line to lilo.conf at top:
boot=/dev/hda
then run the command
/sbin/lilo
the reboot.
Now u'll see OS switching screen of LILO
Enjoy!!!
for more info:
http://www.control-escape.com/linux/lilo-cfg.html

[Jeroen Wenting]

why do you need to make political statements here?
I've never had trouble getting several OSs to work on the same machine, just use swappable harddisks instead of multiboot