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Re: reinstall lilo after windows



hi ya hendrik

On Mon, 12 Sep 2005, Hendrik Boom wrote:

> > > boot = /dev/fd0 
> > > root = /dev/hda1 
> 
> Poor choice of language.  Yes.  It boots the MBR on the floppy,
> then tries to read the kernel, the initrd, and such from /dev/hda1.

yup.. 

> But if the drive has been physically moved to /dev/hdc1, 
> this won't do much good.

that's why you can give and/or change any boot options to the bootloader 
 
> >  	b) at lilo prompt:  root=/dev/hdc1
> 
> Can it actually do *anything* with /dev/hdc1 before it's
> read the kernel form the appointed place

it is 1000x faster to try it ... than to type these email questions 

c ya
alvin



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