On Wed, May 24, 2000 at 02:39:08PM -0400, Jerry Human wrote:
> Hi all:
>
> I have just received my new 10.2 gig hard drive and I want to use it for
> RH 6.2 exclusively. It will become hdc when installed. However, RH 6.2
> needs a boot partition below 1023 on hda. Currently I have RH installed
> on hda4 that boots from a floppy with lilo which satisfies that
> requirement. I've read the install docs and still don't understand how
> to seperate the /boot from / and the rest of RH installed elsewhere.
> Could someone explain?
>
> Also, with the release of lilo-21.4.3, the 1023 cylinder requirement is
> null. However, RH 6.2 doesn't come with that version. Is there a way to
> completely install RH on hdc without using hda for booting?
Install linux, tell it to install the boot sector on /dev/hdc.
Make sure the install program creates a boot floppy.
Boot into linux using the floppy
Insert a disposable floppy (other than your emergency boot disk) and run:
lilo -b /dev/fd0
This will put the lilo boot image on the boot sector of the floppy.
Whenever you want to boot Linux, just insert the floppy and go. It's
almost as fast as the hard-drive boot sector.
Keep both these floppies around. The emergency boot floppy has a kernel
and small filesystem on it so you can boot into linux and do repair work
if anything should happen to your hard drive. The lilo floppy just has a
special boot sector that points to your kernel and root partition on hdc.
The lilo floppy will boot faster but is entirely dependent on your system
being in perfect working order.
If you ever change the location of your kernel (or install a new one),
you'll need to run that lilo command again with the floppy in the drive.
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