"Doin' the Bull Dance, Feelin' the Flow..." wrote:
>
> I just installed slackware 3.4 on my friend's computer...he has a 2nd HD
> that we put it on that should show up as hdc. His CD ROM shows up as hdb.
> We thought that was all fine and dandy.
>
> Well, I had put it onto the master boot record instead of like a superblock
> on the linux native partition. for some reason, even though his original HD
> was never booted, looked at, read or anything, it put LILO on the C: drive.
> We discovered the problem and fixed it by using a boot disk for now, and
> then we'll just put it on the linux native partition.
>
> So, my question is really one out of curiosity more than anything else. Why
> on earth did it do that????
>
> -Evan-
Hi Evans,
to quote someone I really can't remember ;-) "it's not a bug, it's a
feature". lilo can be written to the master boot record, and that
usually is on the HDD jumpered as master. On your friend's system, that
would be "c:" in M$-speak and hda in Linux. The BIOS reads the master
boot record at boot time, lilo comes up and you can determine the
partition you want to boot, if it is marked "active" in the partition
table. HTH.
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