Re: Help understanding lilo Warning message.

2003-10-07 Thread Andrés Roldán
LILO makes a cache of the disks and partitions using /proc/partitions. The default Debian kernel has been compiled with DEVFS_FS support and therefore, if you see your /proc/partitions, you will notice that this filehas a "devfs scheme". Thereby, /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/disc does not ex

Help understanding lilo Warning message.

2003-10-07 Thread Paul E Condon
I recieved the following warning message from lilo recently. I am running kernel 2.4.18 from debian package on 686 . I think I have seen it before, but now I'm concerned that I really don't understand, and it may be important even tho system is running fine to my untrained eye. message: big:/home/

Re: Understanding LILO

2003-07-29 Thread Andrés Roldán
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > I have to ask a dumb question. When booting is lilo.conf read? > Or is lilo.conf only used for writing the MBR plus the additional boot > sectors? I assume it's not read while booting. > > I'm trying to understand the "disk", "boot", and "root" options in > lilo.conf

Re: Understanding LILO (was: Using dd to copy a disk)

2003-07-29 Thread Hugh Saunders
On Tue, Jul 29, 2003 at 10:45:03AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have to ask a dumb question. When booting is lilo.conf read? no. lilo cannot read filesystems. The inverse is what is s good about grub. > Or is lilo.conf only used for writing the MBR plus the additional boot > sectors?

Understanding LILO (was: Using dd to copy a disk)

2003-07-29 Thread moseley
I have to ask a dumb question. When booting is lilo.conf read? Or is lilo.conf only used for writing the MBR plus the additional boot sectors? I assume it's not read while booting. I'm trying to understand the "disk", "boot", and "root" options in lilo.conf and when they are used (i.e. are the