Yann Dirson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Partionning:
> /dev/hda unused (but has old OS and std M$ mbr)
> /dev/hdc1 /boot
> /dev/hdc2 swap
> /dev/hdc3 /
> /dev/hdc4 /local
>
> As answers to dbootstrap, as 1st partition to mke2fs I selected hdc3,
> mounted it as root, and then mke2fs'd the others.
>
> When it came to LILO setup, I only had 2 choices for LILO location:
>
> hda MBR - well, OK, but I would have prefered hdc MBR, to keep the old
> one. Any reason why it's not there ? My bios does support booting
> from ide1 ! I tested it successfully !
>
> hdc1 - er... yes. Bad guess. I suspect this can be due to a wrong
> assumption like "/ is the first ext2", but I suspect many people
> still put /boot first ! Strange that it did not picked up hdc3
> here.
Ouch. I have no clue why this was happening. For some reason it's
thinking that /dev/hdc1 is your root partition.
Is it really feasible to have /boot and / be different partitions?
Doesn't /boot contain the kernels?
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