--- Mike Andrew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
Or vice-versa, is where you want to put the LILO boot loader.
> 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
In the above, /dev/hda2 = /boot and /dev/hda3 = /
Thus, the above config for my setup is quite valid, and works.
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