Re: booting from an ext2 HD when Linux is on a second HD

1999-12-04 Thread Dave Sherohman
Matthew Denson said: >Do I just change /etc/lilo.conf? Or, do I change it and then run lilo? Is >lilo automatically run because the /etc/lilo.conf file is modified? Nope, there's no process watching lilo.conf and running lilo whenever it gets changed. Any time you edit lilo.conf, you _always_ hav

RE: booting from an ext2 HD when Linux is on a second HD

1999-12-04 Thread Matthew Denson
Hi, Sorry to butt in here, but I'm a little unclear on this, and I'm having similar problems myself. >To install Lilo in the MBR of the primary/master drive (/dev/hda), you >need this line in your /etc/lilo.conf: > >boot=/dev/hda > >A minimum lilo.conf in your case (with no menu or boot prompt) m

Re: booting from an ext2 HD when Linux is on a second HD

1999-12-04 Thread Tom Pfeifer
To install Lilo in the MBR of the primary/master drive (/dev/hda), you need this line in your /etc/lilo.conf: boot=/dev/hda A minimum lilo.conf in your case (with no menu or boot prompt) might be: boot=/dev/hda root=/dev/hdb1 install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map read-only image=/path/to/your/kerne

Re: booting from an ext2 HD when Linux is on a second HD

1999-12-03 Thread Loren King
A quick follow-up to my own query, with a bit more info. I wrote: > I have two HD's, /dev/hda is the master, but Linux is installed on > /dev/hdb. ... I can't seem to figure out how to get LILO to put the > boot stuff on /dev/hda and then start up Linux on /dev/hdb. The partition info for my d

booting from an ext2 HD when Linux is on a second HD

1999-12-03 Thread Loren King
I have two HD's, /dev/hda is the master, but Linux is installed on /dev/hdb. Originally, the master drive was DOS, and I used loadlin to start Linux on the second HD. Something fatal happened to my original DOS HD, so now I've put a new HD in its place, made it ext2, and mounted it as extra spac