I don't believe that it is required for any of the MS operating
systems. I don't use it in my lilo.conf file and everything
works. Have you tried omitting it?
Tony Richardson
-----Original Message-----
From: Nathan E Norman [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, July 08, 1998 7:17 PM
To: debian-user
Cc: debian-user
Subject: Re: lilo & lilo.conf
On Tue, 7 Jul 1998, matthew tebbens wrote:
:
: Does anyone know why the "table=" config statement
: is required in the subsections of "other" operating systems
: for the lilo.conf file ? ...why does windows or msdos have
: to know where the partition information is ?
:
: Thanks,
: Matthew
:
: ------
: table=device
: This specifies the device that contains the parti
: tion table. The boot loader will not pass parti
: tion information to the booted operating system if
: this variable is omitted. (Some operating systems
: have other means to determine from which partition
: they have been booted. E.g., MS-DOS usually stores
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: the geometry of the boot disk or partition in its
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
: boot sector.) Note that /sbin/lilo must be re-run
^^^^^^^^^^^^
: if a partition table mapped referenced with `table'
: is modified.
I would say that's the reason right there :)
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