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Re: lilo and /boot partition confusion



hi ya joe

On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Joe McCool wrote:

> My lilo.conf features lines with \vmlinuz and \vmlinuz.old etc.

i assume you mean:  /vmlinuz
	and there is no such thing in linux as \vmlinuz
	as far as the kernel file itself though you can name it anything
	you like

it can be anything:
	/boot/vmlinuz
	/some-place-else/some-other-directory/vmlinuz
 
> These vmlinuz's are links to vmlinuz*2* files in my \boot directory.

if its linkx.. just remove the linke and use it directly in the lilo.conf
file
	change image=/vmlinuz  to  image=/boot/vmlinuz

> 1st confusion:
> But my /boot directory should (?) be mounted from /dev/sda1 (small boot
> partition on large scsi disk) _after_ the system has booted !

no ... the system boooting process takes care of all that for you ..

it first looks at the first 448 bytes of the disk, than jumps to that
addresses it found that tells it where to find the boot image ( vmlinuz )
or whatever it was told

/boot is NOT needed for booting unless you refer to it  ..
/boot is NOT neeed on your runing linux system ..
	you can boot from fd, cd, network, etc, etc..

> 2nd confusion:
> When I run lilo manually it uses the information in /etc/lilo.conf to
> write the mbr,

yes.. the MBR saves the info in lilo.conf in its own whacky format

> using data from /boot ?

no .. /boot is left alone and not used.. any files liste in lilo.conf
that references /boot/vmlinuz must exists ( sanity self check only )

> 3rd confusion:
> Sarge makes no use of *.b files ?

most distro and loot loaders does not use *.b files

c ya
alvin



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