Paul wrote:
>
> On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Linux Neophite wrote:
>
> >
> >Somebody help me please,
> >
> >After installtion of my MandRake 7.0 is doesn't boot/startupB.
> >When I boot it with my Floppy created bootdisk during installation it
> >start/boot.
> >
> >How do I configure my new Linux Box to startup from hardisk?
> >
> >thank you!
>
> Did you create a small boot partition at the beginning of your harddisk
> for LILO to be at? MD 7.0 needs that. Lilo cannot boot from anywhere
> beyond cylinder 1024 in that release. MDK 7.1 seems to have fixed that
> problem, I do not know yet, since I still have to get that one.
>
> Paul
>
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I believe that is the case, however it's still very benificial to create
a /boot partition for the boot files to reside in/on. That way at boot
time there is much less to be initialized at the git-go and Linux loads
much faster.
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Mark
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REASON #1 -- ...it isn't Windows!
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