Subject: Re: LILO problem
From: Greg Madden (pabi@gci.net)
Date: Wed Jan 01 2003 - 19:30:00 AKST
On Wed, 2003-01-01 at 18:42, Adam Elkins wrote:
>
> It's pointing to /dev/hda...my ntfs partition...Should this bechanged?
>
> Adam
>
/dev/hda is the master drive on the primary IDE controller, the mbr for
lilo installation. I don't know about lilo compatibility & NTFS win32. I
thought lilo installed in a different part of the boot sector and didn't
conflict with what Windows did in the boot sector.
> 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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