On Tue, 13 Mar 2001, sreangsu acharyya wrote:
>
> > 1) Boot the system in Linux using the bootdisk.
> > 2) Mount the DOS partition (this should be within 1024 cylinders i.e.
> > 3) Move the /boot to /dos/boot : cp -a /boot /dos ; rm -r /boot
> > 4) Create a symlink for LILO to find at boot: ln -s /dos/boot /boot
> > 5) Move kernel (i.e. /vmlinuz) to /boot/vmlinuz: mv /vmlinuz /boot
> > 6) Edit /etc/lilo.conf to change /vmlinuz to /boot/vmlinuz
>
> A real nifty hack, this should really be put in the FAQ.
Made me read the lilo README. and its there in section "/boot on
DOS partition" .
Me always thought we need an ext2 partition for /boot. So what
does it mean? We can have a complete linux OS on windows partions.
>
> One thing I have wondered is how does the booting procedure take into
> account the vmlinuz being stored in different types of filesystems like
> vfat, ext2. The vmlinuz must read from the disk, which should require a
> mounting of the partition with appropriate filesystem option. Isnt this a
> bit chicken and egg ? or is the the file mounting code written onto the
> 512k boot sector.
>
> -- sreangsu
>
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