Lilo configuration

[Antonis]

When booting lilo loads but there is no selection for my windows OS. Windows 2000 is installed on hda and linux mandrak 7.2 on hdb.

So to add in lilo the windows selection I add these three lines inside the lilo.conf file.

other=/dev/hda1
label=windows
table=/dev/hda

But I cant get it working.

I would really appreciate if someone could tell me what I am doing wrong.

Thanks in advance.

[bdg1983]

Did you rerun /sbin/lilo to write the changes? You should see something like 'added windows'.

[Antonis]

How can I rerun /sbin/lilo?

I go into the directory and just press lilo?

The error i get here is
bash: lilo: command not found

or I run it as an executable ./lilo?

The error I get here is
Fatal: open /dev/hda: Permission denied

Thanks.

[danrees]

You need to run the command as root - for obvious reasons normal users can't change the boot setup!!!

Type:
su
(enter password)

then /usr/sbin/lilo

Then "exit"

[Antonis]

That worked absolutely fine. Thanks!!