Re: lilo and /boot partition confusion

2005-06-23 Thread Alvin Oga
hi ya joe On Thu, 23 Jun 2005, Joe McCool wrote: > My lilo.conf features lines with \vmlinuz and \vmlinuz.old etc. i assume you mean: /vmlinuz and there is no such thing in linux as \vmlinuz as far as the kernel file itself though you can name it anything you like it c

Re: lilo and /boot partition confusion

2005-06-23 Thread Maurits van Rees
On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:55:52AM +0100, Joe McCool wrote: > My lilo.conf features lines with \vmlinuz and \vmlinuz.old etc. > > These vmlinuz's are links to vmlinuz*2* files in my \boot directory. I hope you mean "/" instead of "\" in all cases. :-) > 1st confusion: > But my /boot directory sh

Re: lilo and /boot partition confusion

2005-06-23 Thread Marty
I (Marty) wrote: Joe McCool wrote: Sorry I can't answer the first questions. I have upgraded from woody to sarge and everything is fine, but when I try to upgrade from 2.2.20 to 2.4.27, compiling and installing the new kernel as per the instruction manual, I cannot boot. (40 40 40 40 or just

Re: lilo and /boot partition confusion

2005-06-23 Thread Marty
Joe McCool wrote: Sorry I can't answer the first questions. I have upgraded from woody to sarge and everything is fine, but when I try to upgrade from 2.2.20 to 2.4.27, compiling and installing the new kernel as per the instruction manual, I cannot boot. (40 40 40 40 or just Li and never a li

lilo and /boot partition confusion

2005-06-23 Thread Joe McCool
Thanks to all debians. Please forgive my ignorance, but my google searches have failed to answer my confusion; My lilo.conf features lines with \vmlinuz and \vmlinuz.old etc. These vmlinuz's are links to vmlinuz*2* files in my \boot directory. 1st confusion: But my /boot directory should (?) be

Re: Partition confusion

1998-12-19 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > So I can have three primary partitions, and then the fourth and final "slot" > functions as a pointer to another table? (Or two and two, or four primaries, > or 1 and 3, etc?) Is the extended partition table limited to 4 partitions as > well, so that if I wa

Re: Partition confusion

1998-12-17 Thread Kent West
On 16 Dec 1998, David S. Zelinsky wrote: > However, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > KW> Let me preface this by saying I don't know what I'm talking about, but I > KW> think I choose "Primary" instead of "Logical" when partitioning a drive. > KW> I'm not real sure what each of these means

Re: Partition confusion

1998-12-17 Thread David S. Zelinsky
Jeff Miller's question (below) was answered by George Kapetanios: After making the partition with cfdisk, you have to run mkfs to make an ext2 filesystem on it. Without this, I'm surprised you were able to write anything at all to the partition. However, Kent West <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: KW>

Re: Partition confusion

1998-12-16 Thread Kent West
At 08:19 AM 12/16/1998 -0500, Jeff Miller wrote: >Hello, > >My drive 0 (hda) has three partitions. The first two are FAT32 Windoze and >I have wiped, removed, and re-created the third with cfdisk. I selected >'Logical' as the type, through cfdisk, and it was assigned a Type of 83 >(Linux). I

Re: Partition confusion

1998-12-16 Thread G. Kapetanios
Shouldn't you create an ext2 filesystem on that partition with mkfs ? george On Wed, 16 Dec 1998, Jeff Miller wrote: > Hello, > > My drive 0 (hda) has three partitions. The first two are FAT32 Windoze and I > have wiped, removed, and re-created the third with cfdisk. I selected > 'Logical'

Partition confusion

1998-12-16 Thread Jeff Miller
Hello, My drive 0 (hda) has three partitions. The first two are FAT32 Windoze and I have wiped, removed, and re-created the third with cfdisk. I selected 'Logical' as the type, through cfdisk, and it was assigned a Type of 83 (Linux). I can mount it and everything seems to be ok. My problem