On Friday 02 November 2001 06:39, Glenn Williams wrote:
> Then I made sure I can boot both Linux and XP with PM 7 Boot Magic. BM
this is *not* a flame at you. I have never properly understood why people
insist on using $60 flakey software when lilo (or grub) do the job. Not one
of these paritition managers is truly configurable. You are at their mercy to
keep up with changing os's. They rub their hands with glee each time Windoze
issues a new file format, you *have* to upgrade.
the following lilo.conf is a 90% garanteed success. it is THIS SIIMPLE
(ignore all #comments)
boot ="/dev/hda" # THE MBR
install=/boot/boot.b # THE contents of that mbr
map =/boot/map # internal use
linear # THE method of disk accces, there are others, this one works.
prompt #rubbish
timeout="50" #rubbish
message=/boot/message #rubbish
read-only #yeah yeah
#------linux OS fragment
image=/boot/vmlinuz_think_of_a_number
label="TOMATOES"
root="/dev/hdb2" # THE disk and THE partition
#------ DOS OS fragment
other=/dev/hda1 #THE disk and THE partition
label=PORRIDGE
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repeat the above fragments for as many different kernels and OS's that give
you a thrill, remembering to mount those fragments prior to issuing /sbin/lilo
/sbin/lilo will scream it's head off if any syntax above is wrong, (or if the
item ain't mounted), it is THAT simple.
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what people fail to understand about the initial boot process is that there
are only, and can only ever be, 512-2-4*16= 446 bytes to play with. It
doesn't matter a rat's *rse whether the OS booting to, uses a left knee over
toehold, reverse dihedral double dichotomy file system, with pretzels.
Whatever that file system 'is', it has no part to play during booting because
it can't be implemented in 446 bytes! Whatever the OS, linux included, that
file system, and all parephenalia associated with it, is NOT part of the boot
process, it is 'somewhere else'.
All that is ever required, is to provide the incredibly imple syntax above,
so that lilo can point to 'something else'.
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