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Post by Leung Leu » Sun, 23 Jun 1996 04:00:00



When I run the "liloconfig" to config the lilo, I can have the option to
install the lilo to the MBR or the superblock of the linux partition.
I cannot find any hints in the /etc/lilo.conf file to indicate where the
lilo should be installed.

How to know whether the lilo is installed to MBR or the superblock of linux
partition next time I run the /sbin/lilo again ?

Thanks,

LL

 
 
 
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Post by Neil Ricke » Sun, 23 Jun 1996 04:00:00



Quote:>When I run the "liloconfig" to config the lilo, I can have the option to
>install the lilo to the MBR or the superblock of the linux partition.
>I cannot find any hints in the /etc/lilo.conf file to indicate where the
>lilo should be installed.

Look for the 'boot =' option.  If this specifies /dev/fd0, it will be
installed on a floppy.  /dev/hda indicates the MBR, and /dev/hda4
says on the boot record of partition 4.  If partition 4 is your linux
partition, that would be in the superblock of the linux partition.

 
 
 
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Post by David Bourgi » Wed, 26 Jun 1996 04:00:00



> When I run the "liloconfig" to config the lilo, I can have the option to
> install the lilo to the MBR or the superblock of the linux partition.
> I cannot find any hints in the /etc/lilo.conf file to indicate where the
> lilo should be installed.

> How to know whether the lilo is installed to MBR or the superblock of linux
> partition next time I run the /sbin/lilo again ?

Actually, IMHO there's no flag. But be sure, Liloconf will do the stuff properly,
especially with Lilo v19. Don't worry next use /sbin/lilo will do the same
install with the new /vmlinuz kernel.
What's in /etc/lilo.conf is a description of the existence of your partition
not where they're stored physically (blocks, etc).

Regards,
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1. LILO--LILO--LILO

here is my problem----i have 2 physical hard disks --the primary master
has NT
and the primary slave has LINUX(red hat )--i have LILO boot which has 2
images---x(for linux) and nt.

i wanted to upgrade my linux6.0 to 6.1 and so i booted from the cd-rom ---
but it
would give an error saying that "ext2 file system not found" and would
hang.

so---i disconnected my primary master(NT) hdisk and proceeded with the
installation which was successful.

now , at LILO boot when i give X IT SAYS "LOADING X" and stops....it seems-
the LILO is not able to relate the X image to the primary slave.

can you help me to set the LILO properly.....i will be very thankful.

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