Re: LILO
Subject: Re: LILO
Date: Fri, May 07, 1999 at 09:41:45AM -0700
In reply to:G. Crimp
Quoting G. Crimp(ye416@freenet.victoria.bc.ca):
> On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 10:00:11AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote:
> >
>
> [snip]
>
> > >
> > > # Generated by liloconfig
> > >
> > > # Specifies the boot device
> > > boot=/dev/hda1
> > >
> >
> > boot should be the drive not that partition, ie boot = /dev/hda
> >
>
> What do you mean by "should" ? I have several computers booting
> from a partition boot record, such as hda1 rather than from the MBR such as
> hda.
>
You are correct! :-(
Therefore, the LILO boot sector can be stored at the following locations:
- boot sector of a Linux floppy disk. (/dev/fd0, ...)
- MBR of the first hard disk. (/dev/hda, /dev/sda, ...)
- boot sector of a primary Linux file system partition on the first
hard disk. (/dev/hda1, ...)
- partition boot sector of an extended partition on the first hard
disk. (/dev/hda1, ...)*
I had not read that before. Had always used the MBR. Humm, sorry
about that. Also have not heard/read of any doing it that way. I
have, again, learned something new. Thanks!
So do 'you' have an answer for Rahsheen ? I sure don't.
--
In English, every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our
programming languages.
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Wayne T. Topa <wtopa@mindspring.com>
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