On Fri, 28 Feb 1997, Ronald van Loon wrote:
> |"On Thu, 27 Feb 1997, G. Kapetanios wrote: > |" > |"> > |"> Hi, > |"> > |"> I have a debian system at my office . Since I set it up I have been > |"> booting > |"> using the boot disk. However I decided to try using lilo. So I got the > |"> program by nfs. I created the following script for lilo.conf > |"> boot=/dev/hda3 > |"> root=/dev/hda3 > |"^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > |"THIS > |"> compact > |"> install=/boot/boot.b > |"> map=/boot/map > |"> vga=normal > |"> delay=20 > |"> other=/dev/hda1 > |"^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > |"Has to be THIS before it can boot. Why? Because when you turn on the > |"computer, the BIOS looks at hda1 before all the other drives. Your BIOS > |"may have the ability to boot off of hda3, but unless you do this, or you > |"tell lilo to use /dev/hda1, Lilo won't install on the boot disk. > > Nope. /dev/hda1 is the first partition (1) on the first IDE harddisk (a). > This has nothing to do with it being the first disk. The MBR of the first > harddisk is on /dev/hda. > > -- > Ronald van Loon ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) > > "I am waiting as fast as I can! I want patience, and I want it *NOW*!" > - Bethany J. Parkhurst > Agggh... yup, my mistake. My mind was thinking about a Solaris setup with a couple different drives :) (Fruedian Slip?) It's /dev/hda, MBRs are a disk a piece, not a partition a piece. Will
