Re: Installing LILO in MBR or in another partition

2000-11-04 Thread Terry Boon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Many thanks to David Maze and Jason Holland for their help with this question: I now have a happily working system. On Sat, Nov 04, 2000 at 02:48:54PM -0500, David Z Maze wrote: > I think the default setup for Debian is to use a fairly simple MBR, >

Re: Installing LILO in MBR or in another partition

2000-11-04 Thread David Z Maze
Terry Boon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: TB> In "Running Linux", the example lilo.conf includes the line TB> TB>boot = /dev/hda TB> TB> This will install LILO into the master boot record (MBR) of hda. The TB> explanation continues "If you give a partition device name (such as TB> /dev/hda2), i

RE: Installing LILO in MBR or in another partition

2000-11-04 Thread Jason Holland
> In "Running Linux", the example lilo.conf includes the line > >boot = /dev/hda this is used if LILO will be the controlling boot manager for the system. The bios will read this first when the system is turned on. > > This will install LILO into the master boot record (MBR) of hda. The > ex

Installing LILO in MBR or in another partition

2000-11-04 Thread Terry Boon
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 In "Running Linux", the example lilo.conf includes the line boot = /dev/hda This will install LILO into the master boot record (MBR) of hda. The explanation continues "If you give a partition device name (such as /dev/hda2), instead of a drive de