by Hi All,
I'm running Redhat 5.1, Linux 2.0.35, System Commander Deluxe. I have a
dual boot system Windows on hda1, Linux on hdb1.
On my System the following files are located:
lilo.conf is in /etc/
lilo is in /sbin/
map is in the /boot
boot.b is in the /boot
all the kernels I know of are in /boot
When I boot with System Commander, it gives me the selection window with
selections Windows 95, DOS, Linux etc. I select Linux and it drops me to
the Lilo prompt.
Here is where the confusion begins, if I press the <TAB> key I'm given
the choices of
linux Dos
Yet none of my kernels are called linux, and no mention in my Lilo.conf,
label=, see below. What is it booting? You can see some of the names (in
the lilo.conf)of
kernals I have in the /boot directory. Which ever it is booting, it's
working ok, but I just recompiled (vmlinuz is the new one)to add
ethernet support and would like to give that one a shot.
I did a rdev and it reports /dev/hdb1 which is the /
I had the boot=/dev/hdb1 but after reading something in a How To I
changed it to boot=/dev/hdb , don't know if this is correct or not. Is
the
root=/dev/hdb correct.I tried it several ways.
Should the root device be the /boot ? Since this is where all the
kernels seem to be located. Or does the lines in lilo pointing to the
/boot directory take care of that? I'm pretty confused about that.
Also when I run lilo -C /etc/lilo.conf (-C is to tell it what conf to
use) it reports "Empty map selection" any idea what that's about? map
and boot.b files both reside in the /boot directory.
This is from System Commander Web Site:
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Linux should boot through LILO installed into the root superblock
(which is a different name for partition boot record). LILO should
not be installed into the MBR.
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I know this is a stupid question, how do I check where Lilo is currently
installed?
This is from "man lilo" how do you use it?
/sbin/lilo -I The label of the running kernel can be found in the
stdout.
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boot=/dev/hdb
timeout=100
message=/boot/message
install=/boot/boot.b
map=/boot/map
prompt
image=/boot/vmlinuz
mem=112M
label=vmlinuz
root=/dev/hdb
image=/boot/vmlinuz9904
mem=112M
label=vmlinuz9904
root=/dev/hdb
image=/boot/zImage
mem=112M
label=zImage
root=dev/hdb
Thank You
Joe
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Joseph White
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