Thanks ! This even worked for a bootable partition on hdd =:¬) (except that my bios was not then able to load from hdd |:¬( ).
On Wed, Oct 14, 1998 at 12:16:00AM -0400, Richardson,Anthony wrote: > > 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 > > > >
