On Mon, 9 Jun 2003 08:01 am, Evaristo Ferrari sent this :- > Hi, > I have installed lilo on hda8 mount as root partition and created a > boot floppy. > > TIA > > Evaristo
You couldn't boot from the floppy either? I wonder how much of the hard drive you use for Linux? 80GB might be too large for lilo to boot? Grub might, but I have never had need to use it. I have to admit that I have always placed lilo into the MBR. The boot floppy is the backup, if something goes wrong. Like reinstalling windows and the lilo section of the MBR is wiped, I just boot into Linux with the boot floppy Run lilo, or lilo.conf and all is again well. I have never run a boot partition, have always considered it a waste of space and never needed it. As well I better say that I run a very small win98 partition for a few things that I use. Partition magic being one. I have also run XP in another partition, and crashed it often, then reinstalled it, and it has never reworked the MBR, just put itself back in with out destruction. Maybe because the MBR is in win98, so it doesn't break anything? Boots as normal windows and Linux without change. Sorry that I am unable to be of more help. Charlie. -- In a grove of tall bamboos Beside an ancient temple Steam rolls from the brazier In fragrant white clouds; I show you the path of Sages Beyond this floating world, But will you understand The lasting taste of spring? - Baisao (1675-1763) This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.0, Kmail v1.4.3 and OpenOffice.org1.0.3
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