Subject: Re: LILO problem
From: Adam Elkins (i-robot@gci.net)
Date: Wed Jan 01 2003 - 18:42:13 AKST
It's pointing to /dev/hda...my ntfs partition...Should this bechanged?
Adam
On Wednesday 01 January 2003 06:17 pm, Greg Madden wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 18:06, Adam Elkins wrote:
> > When trying to run 'lilo' or 'Lilo -v' I get an error:
> > Can't put the boot sector on logical partition 0x305
> >
> > btw, my lilo is in MBR, is that why?
> >
> > Adam
>
> If you run 'lilo' as root it will read the /etc/lilo.conf file and
> install per the options listed in the file. Lilo may be installed in the
> mbr but lilo.conf seems to be pointing at a logical partition. The
> option in lilo.conf that specifies where lilo gets installed is:
>
> # Specifies the boot device. This is where Lilo installs its boot
> # block. It can be either a partition, or the raw device, in which
> # case it installs in the MBR, and will overwrite the current MBR.
> #
> boot=/dev/sda
>
> Look at this parameter and see where it points.
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