> Ok. I have followed almost everything here but I do not want to use lilo. I > am afraid that it it will corrupt my MBR. So can I use loadlin? Would you > kindly give me the command? And I am not sure what to comment off in rc.M > (you say almost everything) and I have changed /dev/ram0 to /dev/hda3, my > linux native, in fstab. Thank you. Well, as I said, installing tomsrtbt to hard disk is easy _but_ _not_ _supported_. Meaning, I won't give you loadlin or help you figure it out, especially since I think LILO is better and safe, heck, I use LILO even on computers WITHOUT Linux on them. You can fix your MBR back to DOS by using "fdisk /mbr" anyway, from a M$ emergency boot disk, it is no big deal. If you are scared by putting LILO on your MBR, then just put it on your extended partition and make that active. But I never bother, I just put it on the MBR, it works great, and the risk is low (assuming, of course, that you _have_ a tomsrtbt floppy and an M$ emergency floppy). As for rc.M, just leave the stuff you want, add an fsck if mounting r/w, add some of the other sanity stuff the Linux on a hard drive usually has, etc. -Tom > > Here is what I had to do, just in case you'd like to document it: Well, it this goes to the mailing list archive, which is searchable, and in which this is documented several times. > > -boot tomsrtbt > > -create a partition with fdisk > > -format the partition with mke2fs > > -mount the partition on /mnt > > -"cp -vafx / /mnt" > > -"cp -vafx /usr /mnt" > > -"mkdir /mnt2" > > -"mount /dev/fd0u1722 /mnt2" > > -"cp /mnt2/2.0.36 /mnt" Um, this is a _bad sign_, it has been named "zImage" for a while, that it is called 2.0.36 means you are using a very old version of tomsrtbt. With bugs. I _strongly_ recommend you start out with 1.7.185... > > -"umount /mnt2" > > -edit /mnt/etc/fstab to point to the hard drive > > -edit /mnt/etc/rc.M, basically remove most of it > > -create a /mnt/etc/lilo.conf > > -"mkdir /mnt/boot" > > # you need to get a copy of boot.b, I couldn't find one on tomsrtbt It is on the floppy. You should have copied it when you copied the kernel. > > -"cp boot.b /mnt/boot/boot.b" > > -"lilo -r /mnt" -Tom
