Larry Blodgett wrote:
>
> Steve Litt's article (Litt's Lilo Lessons) is without doubt the best
> article I have ever read on lilo.
>
> But as you know knowledge is a dangerous thing and I have a few
> simple questions.
>
> (I have sent them to Steve but he may not answer and I know many of
> you are just as knowledgeable)
>
> My disk is setup in the following partitions.
>
> hda1 /boot 100 Meg
> hda2 / (for DOS) 2 Gig
> hda3 / (for Slackware 7.0) 2 Gig
> hda4 extended
> hda5 / (for Mandrake 7.1) 2 Gig
> hda6 / (for Caldera 2.4) 2 Gig
> hda7 / (for Experimental) 2 Gig
> hda8 / (for CDRW scratch) 800 Meg
> hda9 / (for swap) 100 Meg
>
> question 1 Do I set hda1, hda2, hda3, hda5, hda6 and hda7 to
> bootable in cfdisk?
>
> question 2 Where is the lilo that contains the information that sets
> up all the partitions?
>
> question 3 What is the function of hda1? I assume it holds common
> information about the overall setup.
>
> question 4 Since, there is a /boot in all the distribution roots how
> does the /boot (hda1) function?
> --
> Larry Blodgett
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>
> --- Linux, WinNT, MS-DOS - also known as the Good, the Bad and the Ugly
Whoa...
If you install with a /boot sector, then the install routine will
put the kernel there.
Make that one bootable.
If at all possible put DOS as /dev/hda1 and the /boot
partition/filesystem as 2--DOS may not like being anything but
first on the disk.
The scratch area for rom burning I would call /romburn and make
sure every one of the installs can mount it at boot time--saves a
lot of frustration.
/dev/hda9 is OK for swap. It can challenge your system to put it
in the middle, but at either end it avoids the physical vs
logical drive geometry problem.
Now your BIG /boot sector will contain a copy of EACH kernel for
each distro, a map and a few other things... And it might be 10%
used if you really pack it with experimental kernel boots.
And every linux you install, except maybe Caldera, will use the
/boot sector successfully--perhaps it would be better to install
DOS/Windows then Caldera then the others. The lilo and grub
loaders for Mandrake last since it will likely assemble a nice
picture for you and recognize the other kernels and such--and on
Caldera choose to put LILO in the MBR.
Caldera is somethibg of an orphan distro because it makes
cross-booting such a chore and tries to correct the deficiency by
offering BootMagic as part of their commercial distro.
Civileme
