Re: How does LILO work...
On Tuesday 15 October 2002 07:19, Price, Erik wrote: I installed Debian a few weeks ago, then installed SuSE on top of it (keeping the partition setup I had created during the Debian install). SuSE installed a boot loader for me, so that whenever I start the computer I get to choose between Linux and Windows (and Linux Safe Mode, though I'm not familiar with that). Now I've reinstalled Debian (still keeping the original partition setup). Two questions: 1) If I choose Linux from the current, SuSE-installed LILO, will that actually boot up my new Debian installation? Or does LILO somehow remember that it's looking for SuSE? (If it matters, the LILO screen shows the SuSE logo still, would be nice to replace that with the Debian whorl.) lilo writes a bit out in the boot section which is how it knows what to load. If the kernel changes you really should run lilo again. This will also remove the SuSE logo (not sure how to get the Debian one in its place, I am sure some searching will answer that). -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: How does LILO work...
Price, Erik [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I installed Debian a few weeks ago, then installed SuSE on top of it (keeping the partition setup I had created during the Debian install). SuSE installed a boot loader for me, so that whenever I start the computer I get to choose between Linux and Windows (and Linux Safe Mode, though I'm not familiar with that). Now I've reinstalled Debian (still keeping the original partition setup). Two questions: 1) If I choose Linux from the current, SuSE-installed LILO, will that actually boot up my new Debian installation? Or does LILO somehow remember that it's looking for SuSE? (If it matters, the LILO screen shows the SuSE logo still, would be nice to replace that with the Debian whorl.) You'll probably get nothing, if I read your situation correctly (you completely overwrote the SuSE install with a Debian install, yes?). LILO records the physical location on the disk where your kernel is installed, which is why you also need to re-run it when you install a new kernel. 2) If I use apt-get to install LILO, will that overwrite the old LILO or will something else happen... I'm afraid to do too much writing on /dev/sda because I don't want to damage my fragile Win2k setup, but I'd like to use LILO to boot into Linux rather than my Debian Boot Disk. I believe 'apt-get install lilo' won't actually do anything until you run 'lilo' as root. You might consider installing GRUB instead, though; the initial installation is IME a little trickier, but you never need to reinstall it again, since the bootloader has some filesystem support. -- David Maze [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://people.debian.org/~dmaze/ Theoretical politics is interesting. Politicking should be illegal. -- Abra Mitchell -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
RE: How does LILO work...
-Original Message- From: David Z Maze [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, October 15, 2002 1:42 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: How does LILO work... I believe 'apt-get install lilo' won't actually do anything until you run 'lilo' as root. You might consider installing GRUB instead, though; the initial installation is IME a little trickier, but you never need to reinstall it again, since the bootloader has some filesystem support. Oh, okay. If the only advantage to GRUB is not having to re-run it after a kernel upgrade, I don't mind that much -- I'm really worried about accidentally writing over my Windows disk (/dev/sda), so I don't want to mess with it. I don't have a backup of what's on it, and can't make a backup at this time (way too much legacy junk). I'll apt-get install lilo and then run it as root. Thanks David. Erik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of unsubscribe. Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
