> Adam Wright wrote:
>
> I have just installed Linux Mandrake 5.3 and am very pleased with it,
> However I do have a question that I hope someone out there can help
> with. I am able to boot my system with a floppy diskette, but not from
> the hard drive. I realize that I have done something incorrectly in my
> installation (I am a definite Newbie to Linux). Now I need to know how
> to install LILO to my MBR on my hard drive. The boot disk I have is
> not able to be mounted.
Did you create a boot disk during installation? If so, use that to boot
the system.
If not, use the boot disk you've got and at the prompt enter something
like 'linux root=/dev/<blah>', where <blah> is the partition that you
installed the Linux root to.
Either way, once the system is running, login as root.
You'll need to modify /etc/lilo.conf in order to get LILO installed to
the MBR. The line you want to modify starts with "boot=". Set that to
"boot=/dev/hda".
If you have another operating system (like Windows) installed on the
machine, ensure that it's listed in this file. This is how it looks on
my system:
other=/dev/hda1
label=dos
table=/dev/hda
Once you've got everything set in /etc/lilo.conf, run /sbin/lilo. It
will emit errors if anything is wrong with the configuration file. When
everything is correct, it will emit messages like these when you run
/sbin/lilo:
Added linux *
Added devel
Added dos
The one with the asterisk is the one that will be booted by default. If
you want to change the default, just rearrange the sections in
/etc/lilo.conf.
Hope this helps!
--
Steve Philp
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