On Thu, Sep 17, 1998 at 01:51:38PM -0500, Manoj Srivastava wrote: > LILO supports booting from either of the hard disks connected to the > Primary IDE controller To be precise, booting is a two stage process with respect to LILO. The first stage loads the boot loader and that can be from anywhere, the BIOS allows it (usually from the master boot record on the primary ide/SCSI disk or from a flopppy) The second stage loads the kernel itself and that may be located in any place where the BIOS is able to read it. > During installation of debian, > the installation program gives only option of installing LILO on the > installation hard disk. So, if I install to hdb, I need to boot from a > floppy (Since my BIOS doesn't allow me to boot from hdb), change the > LILO configuration manually and reinstall LILO. Why can't debian install > gives me an option of installing LILO onto hda? Is it a bug or am I > missing something? There are just too many possibilities for boot setup. You may e.g. want to boot NT also and won't want to overwrite your master boot record. What the distribution could do is to offer a choice of a few more rather common options. > I hope these irritations will be taken care in both the distributions. There are plans underway for debian. Nils -- *-----------------------------------------------------------------------------* | Quotes from the net: L> Linus Torvalds, W> Winfried Truemper | | L>this is the special easter release of linux, more mundanely called 1.3.84 | | W>Umh, oh. What do you mean by "special easter release"?. Will it quit | * W>working today and rise on easter? *
Attachment:
pgpgBSuHI2i6p.pgp
Description: PGP signature