On Mon, 2003-06-09 at 12:04, charlie wrote: > 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've got an 80GB here... Lilo handles 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.
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