Subject: Re: LILO Date: Fri, May 07, 1999 at 09:41:45AM -0700
In reply to:G. Crimp Quoting G. Crimp([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > On Fri, May 07, 1999 at 10:00:11AM -0400, Wayne Topa wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > > > # Generated by liloconfig > > > > > > # Specifies the boot device > > > boot=/dev/hda1 > > > > > > > boot should be the drive not that partition, ie boot = /dev/hda > > > > What do you mean by "should" ? I have several computers booting > from a partition boot record, such as hda1 rather than from the MBR such as > hda. > You are correct! :-( Therefore, the LILO boot sector can be stored at the following locations: - boot sector of a Linux floppy disk. (/dev/fd0, ...) - MBR of the first hard disk. (/dev/hda, /dev/sda, ...) - boot sector of a primary Linux file system partition on the first hard disk. (/dev/hda1, ...) - partition boot sector of an extended partition on the first hard disk. (/dev/hda1, ...)* I had not read that before. Had always used the MBR. Humm, sorry about that. Also have not heard/read of any doing it that way. I have, again, learned something new. Thanks! So do 'you' have an answer for Rahsheen ? I sure don't. -- In English, every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages. _______________________________________________________ Wayne T. Topa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>