[UCLA-LUG] need help please: 1) DSL and 2) BootMagic
Bernie Eisenberg
ursa@mediaone.net
Mon, 07 Feb 2000 23:48:50 -0800
I'm a new user who just got installed at the fest. Many thanks for your
great assistance. I have two questions.
1) Would someone please describe the steps I need to take to connect up
with my ADSL ISP?
2) Here's a problem I ran into after I set lilo up to dual boot to win98 or
linux and everything was working fine.
I decided to install Powerquest's BootMagic. Apparently, this wrote the
master boot record thereby overlaying lilo's boot record info. BootMagic
starts ok but won't start linux. BootMagic just hangs.
I used my linux boot disk to reboot and ran lilo once again which put lilo
back in charge of the mbr.
I read somewhere that lilo's boot record need not necessarily be installed
in the MBR, rather it can be installed in the linux partition.
If I want to use BootMagic to dual (or triple) boot, how can I get it to
boot into lilo to start linux? Am I being unnecessarily complex to want to
use BootMagic to do this? Should I just use lilo to boot dual or triple or
more?
thanks in advance,
Bernie Eisenberg