Re: trouble with the boot-block..
According to Jean Pierre LeJacq:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote:
>
> > According to Jean Pierre LeJacq:
> > > On Wed, 25 Feb 1998, Gary Kline wrote:
> > >
> > > > However, after installing Debian on my first and third SCSI
> > > > drives and *not* using LILO as the boot manager, I found that
> > > > I __always__ boot into Debian, into a RAM file system.
> > > >
> > > > After re-installing both OS's from scratch several times I've
> > > > come to the conclusion that something is causing the master boot
> > > > track to always throw me into the re-install RAM-fs of Linux.
> > > >
> > > Are you booting from the rescue floppy disk. If yes, then indeed you
> > > will be using the RAM-fs. You can either use the boot floppy disk or
> > > LILO installed on the hard disk.
> > >
> > Both the hard drive and the rescue floppy throw me
> > into the RAM-fs. (In fact, trying to re-install FreeBSD
> > from its floppy disk is impossible.)
>
> Does the same thing happen when booting from your boot floppy? Did
> you install LILO on the harddisk? If so, send me the /etc/lilo.conf.
>
Yes, once I did install LILO to my harddisk;
then I brought up the menu again and chose
``NO'' when asked. Evidently, once the loader
installs, it's <<forever>>!
I'll have to check /etc/lilo.conf (if I can
get to it) tonight my time. Last night I
poked around using the ash shell but couldn't
make much sense of the fs layout. Would lilo.conf
perhaps be in /target/etc/lilo.conf?
BTW, this (Debian + FBSD) is on a separate box.
Not yet linked to the rest of the world... .
gary
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