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Re: MBR on a DOS-floppy
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Marthe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Nes=F8en?= =)
Wed Nov 25 10:16:23 1998
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 16:11:32 +0100
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From: Marthe =?iso-8859-1?Q?Nes=F8en?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?_Gangfl=F8t?= <ulva@powahtech.net>
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>Can anyone tell me how to write a linux-mbr as straight file on a dos
>floppy. I want to use this to make system commander boot my linux
>configuration.
>If the above is impossible, maybe someone can tell me how to get to the
>last screen from the linux installation, where you can specify if you want
>to write to the mbr or not, without redoing the whole installation.
Hmm do you have to boot from a floppy? I use System Commander 4 and Redhat
5.2 (have used system commander 3.0 and redhat4.2 as well) on the same
machine without using floppy. You edit the /etc/lilo.conf to boot from the
beginning of the partition, not from MBR...:
Lets say you have your rootpartition at /dev/hda1
Lilo.conf:
boot=/dev/hda1 (instead of boot=/dev/hda as it says by default)
and run "lilo" of course :-)
You will now be able to set hda1 as bootable in systemcommander, and boot
from it, without floppy
If you don't use your first hd as root-partition, you will get a warning.
-Ulva
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