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- From: evansmp@uhura.aston.ac.uk (Mark Evans)
- Subject: Re: No LILO boot sector on 2nd hard disk -- Why?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan27.144937.11492@aston.ac.uk>
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- Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1993 14:49:37 GMT
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- Robert Osterlund (spcberto@psyche.spc.uchicago.edu) wrote:
- : According to the LILO Version 0.8 documentation, the LILO boot sector
- : can't be stored on the second hard disk. This is unfortunate, since I
- : have pretty good reasons for placing my primary Linux file system
- : partition on the second disk. Is there any hope that this limitation
- : might be removed? (If not, it looks like I will have to give up on LILO
- : and continue booting Linux from floppy disk.)
-
- This might well be because the rom dosn't look at the second drive when
- booting.
- You can put a boot record there, but if won't be found, unless you chain
- it from something on a or c
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