Re: [expert] Changing bootable partition

[John Aldrich]

On Sat, 06 May 2000, you wrote:
> I have Mandrake 7.0 installed and have to use a boot disk.  Lilo stops with
> "LI".  I ran fdisk and it shows /dev/hda3 to be the bootable partition, but
> /boot is on /dev/hda1.  Can someone tell me how to flag hda1 as bootable
> without messing up my installation?
> 
Change your boot point to /dev/hda instead of hda1. hda1 is
the first partition on the primary IDE drive. You need to
put LILO in teh MBR which is /dev/hda.
        John