On Thu, Jun 23, 2005 at 11:55:52AM +0100, Joe McCool wrote: > My lilo.conf features lines with \vmlinuz and \vmlinuz.old etc. > > These vmlinuz's are links to vmlinuz*2* files in my \boot directory.
I hope you mean "/" instead of "\" in all cases. :-) > 1st confusion: > But my /boot directory should (?) be mounted from /dev/sda1 (small boot > partition on large scsi disk) _after_ the system has booted ! In lilo.conf you specify a root partition "/" to boot from. Among others this will contain the directory /etc with the fstab file. If there is a partition mentioned in that file that should be mounted at the /boot directory then lilo will mount it. After this is done the real booting takes place. In short: you can put the /boot directory on a separate partition or you can just leave it on the root partition. Both approaches should work without problems in most cases. > 2nd confusion: > When I run lilo manually it uses the information in /etc/lilo.conf to > write the mbr, using data from /boot ? Yes. -- Maurits van Rees | http://maurits.vanrees.org/ [Dutch/Nederlands] Public GnuPG key: http://maurits.vanrees.org/var/gpgkey.asc "It can seem like you're doing just fine, but the creep's creeping into your mind." - Neal Morse
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