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- From: spcberto@psyche.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Oops! My mistake. Got LILO working!
- Keywords: LILO
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.081917.11779@midway.uchicago.edu>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 08:19:17 GMT
- References: <1993Jan27.053943.23311@midway.uchicago.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan27.053943.23311@midway.uchicago.edu> spcberto@psyche.spc.uchicago.edu (Robert Osterlund) writes:
- >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.)
- >
- Thanks to all the people who e-mailed and set me straight. I've now got
- LILO running exactly the way I want it. My setup:
-
- /dev/hda1 -- 20 MB (unStacked) DOS system partition
- /dev/hda2 -- 30 MB Linux user partition
- /dev/hdb1 -- 40 MB Linux root partition
- /dev/???? -- 127 MB (Stacked, effectively ~250 MB) DOS/Windows
- partition on a Quantum Hardcard (any hope someone
- might write a driver for this so I can access this
- from Linux?)
-
- LILO boots Linux by default, unless I hold down shift (etc.) and tell it
- to load DOS (or whatever).
-
- The LILO docs *are* technically dense and require more than one reading.
- I was anxious about taking the LILO step and jumped to conclusions.
-
- At first I tried installing using QuickInst, but it kept complaining about
- some unknown problem. (I subsequently discovered that it was invoking
- the old install script, and that the 'make install' had not copied
- install.new into the /etc/lilo directory.) Then I tried a manual
- installation ala section 7.3 of the LILO 0.8 docs. It suggested doing a
- test on a floppy disk first. This I did, and booting from the floppy
- resulted in a kernel panic. "What the heck," I said as I plunged right
- into the for-real hard drive installation. It worked perfectly.
-
- So, the moral of the story is to read the docs until you think you
- understand them, then read them again. Also, if you take the proper
- precautions (back up both the MBR and the rest of the disk, for that
- matter), JUST DO IT!
-
- Incidentally, it's been a good week for me, Linux-wise. Last weekend I
- installed Xmono with little trouble--after wasting a day trying unsuccess-
- fully installing Xcolor last month--and got a kick out of running all the
- X stuff, ghostscript especially, on my little 'ol 386SX. Before X, Linux
- was just a platform to do office work at home on. (We use HP, Sun, and IBM
- systems at work.) With X, Linux takes on a whole new character. More
- than just a hacker's OS, this thing has the potential to be a viable
- alternative to DOS, OS/2, etc., IMHO.
-
- So, thanks again, guys, for making my day! And special thanks to
- Werner Almesberger and Matt Welsh.
-
- Bob Osterlund
- berto@clio.spc.uchicago.edu
- SSPPCC--University of Chicago
-