aurora boot ??

[bdg1983]

Hi I just installed mandrake 8.1, it's really cool, but i'd really like LILO at boot time. I'm a newbie, so can someone take time out to tell me:
1. How to tell if it was installed
2. How to install it if it wasn't or how to make it work if it was installed.

thanks,
jules

[StarbuckZero]

Hello my friend, I'm using Mandrake 8.1 right now and maybe I could help you out. If you want to setup LILO or GRUB then do this.

1. Start Mandrake Control Center

2. Go to Boot>Boot Config

3. Click the button at the top for setting up LILO/GRUB.

Let me know if that help you any and also I'll like to welcome you to the Linux community. :)

P.S: If you are a newbie take time out to look at the Mandrake Control Center. As a Linux user for 2 years I learn to love it. :)

[lm72]

Aurora as nothing to do with LiLo or any other bootloader.

Under KDE Control panel their i option that let disable aurora.
Their a check boxed with Aurora by it.
Do not recall exactly where but think boot section.

Regards,

Alex :)

[ 11 October 2001: Message edited by: lm72 ]

[chadm1967]

Also, if you'd like, you can use the software manager to uninstall Aurora. Personally, I'm not real fond of it so I just uninstalled it.

[bdg1983]

hi all,
Thanks for the replies! I checked out the control panel's boot section and it's configured to launch lilo graphical menu on /dev/hde6 (this is my correct linux ext2 partition). It also says aurora should be functionnal also.

Sorry for my confusing title with lilo/aurora. My problem i guess is for both.

Right now, I need a boot disk to boot into mandrake 8.1 (and aurora/lilo both don't work). I want to eventually bootstrap the linux boot sector to use it in Win2000 's boot loader. I've heard this is possible, I think just need to get lilo to work at boot and then i can extract the boot sector.

thanks,
jules

[bdg1983]

can someone please help out....

[bdg1983]

ok, this is what i've done; boot lilo from floppy. On the next reboot, aurora worked, lilo also. I made the bootsector file, but then i wanted to reboot into linux using my floppy and couldn't, it printed "LIL- " on the screen (at boottime) and didn't go further. Why is this?? I had to reinstall, unfortunatly....someone help please, thanks.

jules