21.4. Booting Another Operating System with LILO

If your system has multiple operating systems installed on different partitions or hard disks, you can use LILO to select which one to load at boot time. To add a new operating system that you can select at boot time, follow these steps:

1.
On the main page of the Linux Boot Loader module, click on the Create a new boot partition link to bring up the partition creation form.

2.
Enter a unique name for your new boot option into the Name field, such as windows98. Whatever you enter will appear in the LILO menu at boot time.

3.
Select the partition on which the operating system you want to boot from the Partition to boot menu. The selected partition must have an appropriate boot loader or boot sector installed. Windows, for example, does by default, but other operating systems like FreeBSD may need a boot loader to be installed separately.

4.
Set the Pass partition table to OS field to Yes, and select the drive on which the operating system's partition is located.

5.
Click the Create button, and if you have not made any errors on the form you will be returned to the module's main page.

6.
Click Apply Configuration at the bottom of the page to have LILO reinstalled on your hard disk with the new boot option in its map file. A page showing the output of the lilo command and any errors encountered will be displayed so you can see if the installation was successful or not.

7.
You should now be able to reboot and select the new OS from the LILO menu.

Once you have created a new operating system boot option, you can edit or delete it at any time by clicking on its icon on the module's main page. If you make any changes, remember to click Apply Configuration so they can be used at boot time.

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