On Wednesday 02 October 2002 08:03 am,Ben Duncan wrote: > Ohhh .. I get headache just thinking about this one. BE CARFUL !!!
I'm going to. <snip> I have the latest version of LILO, and I can always back up and fix LILO from another disk. My BIOS will let me select any of my disks for booting. >The version I now have has an lilo entry like such: > >disk = /dev/sda > bios = 0x80 >disk = /dev/sdb > bios = 0x81 >disk = /dev/sdc > bios = 0x82 >disk = /dev/sdd > bios = 0x83 >boot = /dev/sda1 >read-only > >Where the "boot" comand tells WHERE the lilo boot stuff should go. I believe that this lilo.conf you show above is writing (installing the 'map') to the boot sector of partition sda1, not the mbr of disk sda. I think you must have something in the mbr to start the whole affair. I think that the gist of what I'm asking is: "If I write LILO to the mbr of a given disk (and set BIOS to boot that disk), will this RETAIN any existing LILO already written to the partition boot sectors?" Thanks! -- Tony Alfrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I'd rather be sailing" _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
