On Tuesday 21 August 2001 03:30, Net Llama wrote:
> --- Chris Kassopulo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [SNIP]
>
> > / is flagged as a bootable partition,
> > shouldn't /boot be flagged instead ?
> > and shouldn't lilo.conf have boot=/dev/hdd2
>
> No, definitely not. / is where linux boots from, not /boot. /boot is
> just the location of the kernel & System.map's. You go ahead and check
> your own lilo or grub, and you'll see much the same thing.
>
llllllama, this isn't correct, or put better so we aren't out of context here
the
boot = /dev/wherever
MUST point to the location of the lilo boot loader. Not the file system, not
the root/, the location where boot.map is as it's chain loader.
Your config is wrong (for the above context, you might be trying something
else)
and you should have
boot = /dev/hda2
followed by
root =/dev/hda3
----
lilo does not require the activation flag (it ignores it), assuming you have
a dos style boot loader on /dev/hda mbr then it _would_ require that active
partition flag, elsewise not.
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