Re: Setting up a Bootloader, post install.
The only difficulty I see is that on a MB with a 486, the
BIOS may not see all of the disk, causing lilo to fail.
(It does on my old 486).
An answer to this is to put a small boot partition in the front
of the disk, put /boot and put the kernel there. If there is
another answer, I'd like to hear it.
Someone please tell how to make such a partition on an existing
system short of copying the data some place else, redoing the
partitions, and copying the data back.
David Teague
On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 20:40:28 -0700
> From: Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <ke6sls@cox.net>
> Reply-To: ke6sls@arrl.net
> To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Setting up a Bootloader, post install.
> Resent-Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 22:58:24 -0500 (CDT)
> Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
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> On Friday 13 September 2002 01:49 pm, sobriquet wrote:
> > I've installed Woody on an old machine (a 486!), and as a temporary fix I
> > used a floppy disk to boot, allowing regular boots to load Win95(!). Now
> > the Win partition is gone completely, so I'd like to have debian take over
> > the mbr and the bootstrap process completely, as a single boot system.
> >
> > How do I go about doing this, without going through the install process
> > again? Do I simply need to install GRUB or LILO? Or is there anything else
> > I need to think about?
> >
> > Much thanks.
>
> Greetings 'putyournamehere':
>
> I would be surprised if lilo isn't already installed. Check with:
> dpkg -l lilo
> If you see something like:
> ii lilo 22.2-3
> Then it's installed. Just run /sbin/lilo and it should write to the mbr. If
> you don't have lilo, then install it and the config should walk you through
> it. Also, if you have questions, use 'man lilo' and I think 'man lilo.conf'.
>
> gl
> tatah
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