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Re: Setting up a Bootloader, post install.



--- David Teague <dbt@cs.wcu.edu> wrote:
> 
> The only difficulty I see is that on a MB with a 486, the 
> BIOS may not see all of the disk, causing lilo to fail. 
> (It does on my old 486).
> 
> An answer to this is to put a small boot partition in the front
> of the disk, put /boot and put the kernel there. If there is 
> another answer, I'd like to hear it.
> 
> Someone please tell how to make such a partition on an existing 
> system short of copying the data some place else, redoing the 
> partitions, and copying the data back.
> 
> David Teague
> 
> 
> On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Jaye Inabnit ke6sls wrote:
> 
> > Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 20:40:28 -0700
> > From: Jaye Inabnit ke6sls <ke6sls@cox.net>
> > Reply-To: ke6sls@arrl.net
> > To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > Subject: Re: Setting up a Bootloader, post install.
> > Resent-Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002 22:58:24 -0500 (CDT)
> > Resent-From: debian-user@lists.debian.org
> > 
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> > On Friday 13 September 2002 01:49 pm, sobriquet wrote:
> > > I've installed Woody on an old machine (a 486!), and as a
> temporary fix I
> > > used a floppy disk to boot, allowing regular boots to load
> Win95(!). Now
> > > the Win partition is gone completely, so I'd like to have debian
> take over
> > > the mbr and the bootstrap process completely, as a single boot
> system.
> > >
> > > How do I go about doing this, without going through the install
> process
> > > again? Do I simply need to install GRUB or LILO? Or is there
> anything else
> > > I need to think about?
> > >
> > > Much thanks.
> > 
> >     Greetings 'putyournamehere':
> > 
> > I would be surprised if lilo isn't already installed.  Check with:
> > dpkg -l lilo
> > If you see something like: 
> > ii  lilo               22.2-3
> > Then it's installed.  Just run /sbin/lilo and it should write to
> the mbr.  If 
> > you don't have lilo, then install it and the config should walk you
> through 
> > it.  Also, if you have questions, use 'man lilo' and I think 'man
> lilo.conf'.
> > 
> > gl
> > tatah
> > - -- 

To the OP, I find grub more flexible.
To David Teague, is there some reason you are top-posting to this
thread?  Its quite annoying.  re your question, gnu parted might do it.
 I'd backup first tho.  

patrick.

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