Hi
On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Jeremy Hoyland wrote:
> Something no-one has said 'cause it's obvious ;-) When installing Linux,
> DO NOT SKIP the "create a boot diskette" stage!
Actually, with a bootable installation CD, I rather skip the boot diskette
creation, and in case of such a problem, start an installation, and when
it has got far enough, chroot into the original system and run whatever I
need (usually: /sbin/lilo)
>
> Something you should consider: If you plan to be compiling and installing kernels
> pretty frequently you should make the effort to get LILO working. This is
> because the NTloader solution requires the following steps (IIRC):
>
> Copy bzImage to /boot partition, edit lilo.conf (perhaps) and run lilo (must)
> <if LILO is in your MBR, you stop here>
> peel off a copy of the boot partition lilo just created for you:
> dd if=/dev/hda5 of=/tmp/bootsect.lnx bs=512 count=1
> copy this bootsect.lnx (somehow) to drive C:\, but save the original one first!
>
> You need to do lilo/dd/cp EVERY TIME you SNEEZE at your kernel image, since
> lilo uses the actual physical location of the image on the disk (remember - the
> kernel image is loaded before anything gets "mounted"). This is also the cause of
> the 1024 cylinder limit, since early BIOSes couldn't address cylinders beyond this
> (modern lilos AND BIOSes can get round this limitation). (that's logical AND)
If grub would be used - will it be better?
>
> read the following mini-HOWTOs on http://www.linuxdoc.org/
> LILO
> Linux+NT-loader
> Linux+WinNT
> Linux+DOS+Win95+OS2
IIRC some of them are relatively old. Would anybody comment on their
relevance?
--
Tzafrir Cohen
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