Whenever you change lilo.conf, or move any of the files it refers to,
you must rerun lilo.
lilo
You probably need to be root to do that. Probably, you know that. The
way you have set up lilo, if you want to _use_ lilo, you also need to
set /dev/sda5 as your bootable partition with fdisk. I don't know scsi,
but you can't do that with IDE. IDE only has 4 bootable partitions,
plus the MBR. If scsi is the same way, the simplest way might be to
install lilo on the mbr: change /etc/lilo.conf to say
boot = /dev/sda
and rerun lilo.
if lilo can get at /boot using the BIOS, that will work. If it can't,
it will tell you, and we can take some other evasive measures.
Lawson
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On Tue, 3 Aug 1999, Chris Job wrote:
> Well fellow newbies,
> I've taken your advice and suggestions as to changing my system so that
> it boots-up from the hard-drive instead of the a start-up diskkette.
> I've read everything I could find on lilo but still am not clear as to
> what I should do...
> So if there is anyone out there who can help me I'd be very greatful.
>
> Here is what my present lilo.conf look like.
>
> boot = /dev/sda5
> timeout = 50
> prompt
> default = linux
> vga = normal
> read-only
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.0.36-0.7
> label = linux
> initrd = /boot/initrd-2.0.36-0.7.img
> root = /dev/sda5
> other = /dev/sda1
> label = dos
> table=/dev/sda
>
> Any thoughts or suggestions as to what I should do to make my system
> boot-up via the hard-drive rather than a diskette?
>
> Thanks for the help
>
> Chris
>
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