I read in the software raid howto that lilo doesn't work if the boot
partition resides on a raid1 device, but there is is a redhat patch for
lilo.
Does anybody know if there is a debian pkg for lilo which does the job?
TIA,
Werner
G'day all,
I have a machine running redhat that I am about to upgrade rebuild as a
debian system.
I have been having a problem booting and was wondering if I could
find a solution to implement when I change to debian.
There are only SCSI disks
/dev/sda2 900833 735118 119175 8
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
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 lil
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 tryi
> Is there a way to make like a menu that appears when i start my computer
> that asks me which OS (win95/linux) i would like to go to ?
Yes. You use 2 options in your lilo.conf file to make this happen:
"message" and "timeout". The message option tells LILO to automatically
display a file's
I've found that you have to mark the WIN95 partition as the "bootable" partition
in the partition table or win95 has a hissy-fit. However, this DOES NOT affect
the
boot-ability of your linux partition. You can make both linux and win95
bootable
on power-up by editing your lilo.conf file in your
On Sun, 30 Mar 1997, Chris Trantau wrote:
>
> I finally got my CD ROM working and my packages installed but i still have
> a question.
>
> Is there a way to make like a menu that appears when i start my computer
> that asks me which OS
> (win95/linux) i would like to go to ?
>
> I have tried ma
I finally got my CD ROM working and my packages installed but i still have
a question.
Is there a way to make like a menu that appears when i start my computer
that asks me which OS
(win95/linux) i would like to go to ?
I have tried making my Linux partition bootable, but it goes there
automatic
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