Re: lilo: liloconfig doesn't make the system bootable
On Tue 17 Mar 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 09:55:49AM +0100, Dietmar Block wrote:
> > > Lilo install (liloconfig) does NOT make the system bootable. I
> > > think it doesn't install mbr properly.
> > >
> > > I've installed a few systems (with bo & hamm disks) and noone
> > > booted without manual help. I know how to install mbr manually, but
> > > others can just say "Debian broke my computer".
> >
> > I guess the problem is that Liloconfig produces a config-file including the
> > line
> >
> > boot=/dev/hda2 (in my case)
> > instead of
> > boot=/dev/hda
> >
> > I think liloconfig sets 'boot' to the same value as 'root'.
>
> Hasn't lilo always done this in Debian? You need to make the Debian
> partition active to boot it first.
Yes, but that doesn't work in the case of a "virgin" disk, i.e. without
any dos / whatever primary boot block, which is what looks at what the
active partition is and then boots that. Try it with a disk that's been
clobbered with "dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda count=100"; install debian
on that, and watch how it fails to boot after installation.
This does indeed need to be fixed.
Paul Slootman
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