On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 07:12:51PM +0200 or thereabouts, Stephan Seitz wrote: > On Fri, Jun 10, 2005 at 11:03:13AM -0400, Steve Å wrote: <snip> > You're confusing the filesystem directory /boot, where the kernel > image and the boot loader configuration are, and the lilo line > "boot=", which tells lilo, where the boot sector should be written. Then by boot sector could be written to hdc1 then ? That's were my root partion is, so I would think everything should go there, no ? > /boot does not have to be on the same partition as the root partition > "/". > > > (Relevant Lilo.conf line); > > boot=/dev/hda Right OK, but I can manually change it to hdc, and then rerun lilo ? > This tells lilo, where the boot information (lilo menu, which kernel > and where is it, ...) should be written. > Nomally this is correct, because hda is the first place, the BIOS > looks for boot information, if you're booting from harddrive. > > > # Specifies the device that should be mounted as root. (`/') > > # > > root=/dev/hdc1 > > This tells lilo, which partition is the root partition "/". This > option needs the kernel, because it doesn't know it (there is no > fstab, if the kernel does not know, where to look). OK > >> append="hdx=ide-scsi" # change the x to yours > >My present LILO.conf doesn't have the append line, like your example. Is it > > No, the append line contains information lilo passes to the kernel > (like the root= information). In this case, it tells the kernel (or > the ide-scsi module in the kernel, to treat hdx as SCSI device, which > I think is necessary if you use IDE burner with older cdrecord > versions. > > If you don't need it, don't use the append line. Great thanks for the information. -- Steve A. ----------------------------------------------- Friday Jun 10 2005 14:05:01 EDT ----------------------------------------------- Total strangers need love, too; and I'm stranger than most.
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