On Mon, 04 Sep 2000 10:27:12 -0500, Bret Hughes said:
> Ben Logan wrote:
>
> > Greetings,
> >
> > Awhile ago, I installed a new hard-disk in my computer (which already had win95
> > on it), and put RH6.2 on the new disk. I didn't make a bootable linux
> > partition though (I've been booting off floppy when I want to load linux).
> >
> > Windows crashed and has to be reinstalled, so while I'm reformatting anyway,
> > I'm going to create a (roughly) 3M partition on the win95 disk and would like
> > to install lilo and make linux bootable off that partition.
> >
> > How would I go about doing this?
>
> Ben I would install windows and then boot off the floppy.
> edit /etc/lilo.conf to include the new windows image
>
> other=/dev/hda1
> label=win98
>
> and check the linux boot partition stuff
>
> save it and run lilo -v
>
> That should do I I believe.
>
> Bret
I'm still somewhat confused as to where linux is going to get the files it
needs to boot. Don't I have to copy a boot image or something to hda1 in order
for Linux to boot? Also, lilo only resides on the floppy disk...how do I put
it on hda?
Here's my /etc/lilo.conf file, maybe it will help:
boot=/dev/hdc7
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
linear
default=linux
image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.2.14-5.0
label=linux
read-only
root=/dev/hdc7
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
Thanks,
Ben
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