On Sat, Apr 22, 2000 at 02:21:03PM -0400, Adam Di Carlo wrote:
> > a) with 2 SCSI disks, Root partition is first primary partition of second
> > drive.
>
> Device name please!
Partitions:
/dev/sda
/dev/sda1 500M DOS
/dev/sda5 /boot
/dev/sda6 (partioned but unused)
/dev/sdb
/dev/sdb1 2G, /
/dev/sdb5 2G, /home
> > Result: Lilo gets installed in the extended partition, my previous MBR is
> > untouched.
>
> This is proper behavior for case (b). From the lilo manual:
> > boot=/dev/hda2 (b)
>
> Proper.
I disagree.
I explicitly wanted to have lilo in the mbr. Let's assume, there is
garbage in the MBR that needs to be overwritten. As things stand, there is
no way of telling the installation procedure to overwrite it.
If I wish to have lilo in the mbr, its should be
boot=/dev/hda
and it works this way. Such a configuration can be found later in the lilo
manual:
LILO alone
- - - - -
+----------------------------------------+
| Master Boot Record Operating system |
|----------------------------------------|
| LILO ---------------> Linux |
| ---> other OS |
+----------------------------------------+
I'm going to build a new set of bootdisks from CVS and try again.
Nils
--
Plug-and-Play is really nice, unfortunately it only works 50% of the time.
To be specific the "Plug" almost always works. --unknown source
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