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Oh, BTW, you can get a menu by pressing shift and then tab at the LILO: prompt.<br />
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Run the command:<br />
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man lilo.conf for more info.
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Oh, BTW, you can get a menu by pressing shift and then tab at the LILO: prompt.

Run the command:

man lilo.conf for more info.

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This might now be helpful, but you can change the default boot setting from linux to dos by changing the settings using linuxconf. &nbsp;I'm a new user, but I was able to change the default from linux to dos, and back again.
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This might now be helpful, but you can change the default boot setting from linux to dos by changing the settings using linuxconf.  I'm a new user, but I was able to change the default from linux to dos, and back again.

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I have windows 98 running on my computer. &nbsp;I just installed Red Hat 6.0 on to a seperate HDD that I just installed. &nbsp;The installation went fine except when it told me to reboot, it took me directly to linux and asked me for a user name and password. &nbsp;I know what my password is but I don't know what to put into the user name.<br />
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My other question is how can I get my computer to prompt me to ask which os I want to use. &nbsp;Right now it will only go into linux. &nbsp;I can boot off of my win98 boot up disk but when i try to run windows from c:\windows I get a blue screen with an error saying &quot;VFAT Device Initialization Failed, system halted&quot;<br />

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I have windows 98 running on my computer.  I just installed Red Hat 6.0 on to a seperate HDD that I just installed.  The installation went fine except when it told me to reboot, it took me directly to linux and asked me for a user name and password.  I know what my password is but I don't know what to put into the user name.

My other question is how can I get my computer to prompt me to ask which os I want to use.  Right now it will only go into linux.  I can boot off of my win98 boot up disk but when i try to run windows from c:\windows I get a blue screen with an error saying "VFAT Device Initialization Failed, system halted"


Can't boot to win98 from Lilo

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