Re: Lilo query
On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Ronald van Loon wrote:
> |"On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote:
> |"
> |">
> |"> Hi,
> |">
> |"> I have a debian system at my office . Since I set it up I have been
> |"> booting
> |"> using the boot disk. However I decided to try using lilo. So I got the
> |"> program by nfs. I created the following script for lilo.conf
> |"> boot=/dev/hda3
> |"> root=/dev/hda3
> |"^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> |"THIS
> |"> compact
> |"> install=/boot/boot.b
> |"> map=/boot/map
> |"> vga=normal
> |"> delay=20
> |"> other=/dev/hda1
> |"^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> |"Has to be THIS before it can boot. Why? Because when you turn on the
> |"computer, the BIOS looks at hda1 before all the other drives. Your BIOS
> |"may have the ability to boot off of hda3, but unless you do this, or you
> |"tell lilo to use /dev/hda1, Lilo won't install on the boot disk.
>
> Nope. /dev/hda1 is the first partition (1) on the first IDE harddisk (a).
> This has nothing to do with it being the first disk. The MBR of the first
> harddisk is on /dev/hda.
>
> --
> Ronald van Loon (ronald@and.nl)
>
> "I am waiting as fast as I can! I want patience, and I want it *NOW*!"
> - Bethany J. Parkhurst
>
Agggh... yup, my mistake. My mind was thinking about a Solaris setup with
a couple different drives :) (Fruedian Slip?)
It's /dev/hda, MBRs are a disk a piece, not a partition a piece.
Will
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