Re: LILO on hdc (to be hda)

1999-08-06 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Keith001 wrote: > Can those scripts get some input from the keyboard at that time? Probably. You can just use sulogin to get a quick root-shell to make any needed tweaks. The advantage to this is that you can use vi or something to make changes, instead of having to rely on

Re: LILO on hdc (to be hda)

1999-08-06 Thread Keith001
>> BTW, does anyone have an idea about how to use different fstab at >> bootup - by using a boot parameter for instance? The idea is to be > >Not possible. /etc/fstab is read by mount, which is called by the startup >scripts. >You can, of course, modify the scripts to shuffle the fstab file befo

Re: LILO on hdc (to be hda)

1999-08-06 Thread William T Wilson
On Fri, 6 Aug 1999, Keith001 wrote: > BTW, does anyone have an idea about how to use different fstab at > bootup - by using a boot parameter for instance? The idea is to be Not possible. /etc/fstab is read by mount, which is called by the startup scripts. You can, of course, modify the script

Re: LILO on hdc (to be hda)

1999-08-06 Thread Keith001
Hi, >> The problem basically is that I want to be able >> to specify three things: >> - root filesystem after Linux has booted >> - the device to write boot table to >> - the device for lilo to use at booting to read the kernels etc. >> And I only have `root=' and `boot=' arguments to specify a

Re: LILO on hdc (to be hda)

1999-08-05 Thread Jens B. Jorgensen
I can't see a way to tell LILO to do it. I would advise writing your kernel to a floppy and booting off of that the first time, then run lilo. joost witteveen wrote: > So I thought I know how to work with LILO. And I *thought* done > this many times before (years ago). But... > > I want to prepar

LILO on hdc (to be hda)

1999-08-04 Thread joost witteveen
So I thought I know how to work with LILO. And I *thought* done this many times before (years ago). But... I want to prepare a harddisk (that should later become the root FS) So I put it in my system (it was found as hdc), and mounted it as /mnt I put in the lilo.conf file: boot=/dev/hdc ro