I don't know the answer to your question, but I've got an alternative approach.
Mount the boot partition of the new distribution: mount /dev/hda1 /mnt Then add the following stanza (it's based on your entry below) to lilo.conf: image=/mnt/vmlinuz label=newdistro root=/dev/hda12 Then lilo will figure out the sector to file mapping for you. Tony On Tuesday, October 13, 1998 1:32 AM, G. Crimp [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anyone know how to determine what sectors on a partition a > given file is occupying ? The lilo docs state that when specifying a device > name, one also has to say what sectors to map (either by giving a beginning > and an end, or a beginning and an offset). > > Here is what I am trying to do. I want to play with different > distributions just to see what they are like, but boot them from the > harddrive. I currently have Deb installed to hda3. hda1 and hda2 are 5MB > partitions, on which I install /boot from another distro, so that the kernel > images within fall well below the 1024 cyl. limit. > > I am not at the machine I am doing this on, nor are they networked, > so the following details may not be 100% accurate (syntax wise). This box > has no DOS. Lilo is installed directly to the MBR. So, the lilo.conf looks > something like > > --------------- > boot=/dev/hda > [prompt, delay, timeout, etc.] > image=/vmlinuz > label=olddistro > root=/dev/hda3 > -------------- > > to which I want to add something like > ------------- > image=/dev/hda1 # this is the partition /w kernel of new distro > label=newdistro > root=/dev/hda12 #this is / of new distro > sectors[or whatever the variable name is]= > ---------------- > > For floppies I've seen that it is something like 1+512, so I guess the image > must start on the second sector of the floppy. there must be someway to > determine the sector info for any file. > > Any ideas ? TIA. > > Gerald > > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < > /dev/null > >
