Chen, If your current boot manager is capable of booting a partition on the 2nd drive (it sounds like it is, but I'm not familiar with boot easy), then the only thing you should have to do is to install lilo in the boot sector of your Linux partition. In that way it will not affect the rest of your current setup.
To do that, you first need to set up the text file /etc/lilo.conf with the right parameters. I'll start with the example lilo.conf file that comes with lilo (/usr/doc/lilo/examples/conf.sample), and mark the changes you need to make to it. I'm assuming that your 2nd disk is the primary slave (/dev/hdb), and you said that you have Linux installed on the 2nd partition of that drive, which would make that partition /dev/hdb2. boot=/dev/hda1 ==>> boot=/dev/hdb2 root=/dev/hda1 ==>> root=/dev/hdb2 compact install=/boot/boot.b map=/boot/map vga=normal delay=20 image=/vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 ==>> root=/dev/hdb2 label=Linux read-only Again, this file needs to be located at /etc/lilo.conf. Then, to actually install the lilo boot loader in the boot sector of /dev/hdb2, you need to run the 'lilo' command as root user. Lilo will use what you have specified in /etc/lilo.conf to install it's boot loader in the first sector of your Linux partition. On the next boot, you need to tell Boot Easy to boot from the Linux partition, which should then execute the lilo boot loader you just installed, which will then boot the Linux kernel. Note: Actually, you don't need both root= lines in this case, but it won't hurt anything. Tom Chen Xu wrote: > > Dear All, > > I installed Debian2.0 form official CD last night for the first time. > I should say that it is pretty easy to install. As newbie, I have my > first question here. > > I have two IDE drives. In the first one I have DOS(win95) and FreeBSD. > In the second one, I have one partition for more DOS and one partition > for more FBSD space. I used all the free space in the 2nd drive for > Debain. So my Debain / is on the 2rd partition of 2nd drive. > > When I installed FreeBSD I installed boot manager. So when I boot, I > can have chices F1 for DOS and F2 for FreeBSD. And F5 for second disk, > which is not working yet. > > Question: > How can I configure Lilo to boot Debian directly from HD? Will the > installation remove the boot manger I already have? Is there any way > that I configure my boot manager(boot easy) to boot Debian from HD > without installing Lilo? > > That's all for the first time. Thanks alot in advance. > > Chen > > _________________________________________________________ > DO YOU YAHOO!? > Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com > > -- > Unsubscribe? mail -s unsubscribe [EMAIL PROTECTED] < /dev/null -- Try Debian GNU/Linux - it's free, it's open source, and it rocks http://www.debian.org
