Re: Lilo question

[Bill Marcum <bmarcum@iglou.com>]

On Wed, Oct 06, 2004 at 07:47:02AM -0400, Sherman, Michael (GE Energy) wrote:
> 
> Hi.
> I am having a little problem with LILO. I have a machine with Win2000 on the
> first IDE drive and I want install Debian on the other drive, which happens
> to be SCSI. If in /etc/lilo.conf I specify boot=/dev/hda -asking LILO to
> install itself into the MBR, how will I make it aware that Debian kernel
> resides in /dev/sda?
> Meaning the line image=/boot/kernel-2.6 will make LILO think that Debian is
> also in /dev/hda. Has anyone encountered a similar situation?
> 
> Thanks in advance.
> 
> 
In the lilo.conf file, "boot=" tells lilo where to write the boot 
sector.  It has nothing to do with "/boot", which is in the mounted file
system when /sbin/lilo is executed.


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