rick@ee.ee.uwm.edu (Rick Miller) writes:

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>I've gotten H.J.'s bootable rootdisk to install properly, and I had no
>trouble making my second partition (/dev/hda2) bootable... but it's a
>royal pain to have to 'fdisk' every time I want to use the other OS.

What I did was to create a floppy which would boot the linux
image on the HD. Set the MSDOS partition as bootable. Then to boot linux
insert the floppy and boot.

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>I know I'm probably missing something incredibly simple, but Hlu's doc's
>only told me enough to make my Linux partition bootable, and I couldn't
>make much sense out of LILO's README blurb either.

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>Help?

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>Oh, and BTW:  I noticed that Linux's 'fdisk' allows me to "t"oggle the
>bootable bit on more than one partition...  What happens if I "w"rite
>it that way?  (I haven't had the nerve to try it.)

Doing this will render the HD un-bootable!
try using activate (with the lilo distribution) if you want to
change the active partition.

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>Is *THAT* what I'm missing with this LILO thingy???

It's not as complex as it looks