On Fri, 12 Mar 1999, David B. Teague wrote: > > Folks: > > I installed Slink on my system but had not installed LILO > to make it bootable directly from the HD. Someone swiped the > boot disk. > > Question: Is it possible, given the contents of the /etc/fstab > file and a knowledge of where the kernel is located > (/boot/vmlinuz-2.036) to run LILO from a boot disk -- say > "Tom's Unix on a floppy" and make the floppy boot the kernel > on the hard disk?
I believe this is not possible with lilo, because it actually builds a map of the sectors on disk that the kernel lives in. Thus if one defrags and doesn't run lilo afterwards, one's disk becomes non-booting. If you have any sort of rescue disk, with linux on it, you can tell lilo something like vmlinuz root=/dev/hda1 and then run lilo once your system is up. Grub, the Grand Unified Boot Loader, actually understands ext2 (altho' when I tried it it didn't do symlinks, and I like to have vmlinuz be a symlink). So if you are using Grub, these problems don't arise. Grub should eventually replace lilo. --Jim http://as220.org/jb [Advertisement] "Y2K: Bringing The Past Into The Future Today"
