[H-GEN] Chance to save a marriage!

[Jason McDonald]

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Hi Matt,

Have you rerun "lilo" after changing the configuration file?  The lilo
program uses the information in /etc/lilo.conf to generate a new boot
sector.  If you don't run the program, your changes to the lilo.conf won't
have any effect.

Cheers,
J.

On Thu, 21 Dec 2000, Matt Bodman wrote:

> Ok, so I'm exaggerating a little, but I have just installed Mandrake on
> our PC at home and my wife is sick of Lilo booting into Linux by
> default.  I've tried editing the lilo.conf file but no changes I make
> seem to actually take effect.  Can someone stoop to help a
> lowly-lilo-linux-loser-user??
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Matt


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