Re: making disk bootable

1996-11-23 Thread Bill Roman
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

1996-11-23 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

1996-11-23 Thread Daniel Stringfield
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

1996-11-23 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

1996-11-23 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
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

1996-11-22 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
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

making disk bootable

1996-11-22 Thread Ricardo Kleemann
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 haven't used it, so my hd is not bootable. TIA! Ricardo -- TO