Re: making disk bootable

Daniel Stringfield wrote: > > On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: > > > > How do I go about inserting an mbr if my current setup isn't using LILO > > (and thus hasn't made the hd bootable)? > > the MBR is "master boot record". this is the actual software that brings > up the system.

Re: making disk bootable

Hello, > the MBR is "master boot record". this is the actual software that brings > up the system. The MBR in this case is initialized when you install LILO. > Its not something you "install" then add LILO. It *IS* LILO. lilo can be installed as the MBR, but in debian it isnt. Debian has a pac

Re: making disk bootable

On Fri, 22 Nov 1996, Ricardo Kleemann wrote: > Hi! > > How do I go about inserting an mbr if my current setup isn't using LILO > (and thus hasn't made the hd bootable)? > > Does toggling the bootable flag in fdisk take care of that? > > I'd like to install lilo on my system and up to now I hav

Re: making disk bootable

Hello, > How do I install the mbr package? Is it a normal .deb package? Right now > my /dev/hda does NOT have an MBR... I need to install it in order to use > lilo. Will liloconf help me out? Yes. Just install lilo with dselect and the mbr package will be present, too. Then run liloconfig, and

Re: making disk bootable

Thanks! How do I install the mbr package? Is it a normal .deb package? Right now my /dev/hda does NOT have an MBR... I need to install it in order to use lilo. Will liloconf help me out? Ricardo On Sat, 23 Nov 1996, Bernd Eckenfels wrote: > Hi, > > > How do I go about inserting an mbr if my

Re: making disk bootable

Hi, > How do I go about inserting an mbr if my current setup isn't using LILO > (and thus hasn't made the hd bootable)? You should install lilo in the root-fs partition. Then it will be loaded if there is a normal MBR and the partition is activated, or you can install the debians mbr package int