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Re: LILO and EZ-Drive
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jan Carlson)
Wed Nov 25 13:32:10 1998
Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 13:29:58 -0500
From: Jan Carlson <janc@iname.com>
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Damond Walker wrote:
> How did I do it? Here's the basic steps I took to get everything to work.
> It's from memory and it was late at the time so I might be missing a step or
> something got out of sequence...so experiment.
>
> 1) Got the lastest version of EZ-Drive from the web...
> 2) Installed EZ-Drive
> 3) Installed Linux (Redhat 5.0)
> 4) Rebooted the machine and it worked.
>
> During one iteration, I had to go back and tell EZ-Drive to fix itself after
> the Lilo install. Once I told EZ-Drive to repair itself (basically, restore
> a boot sector from backup or something), EZ-Drive appeared...paused for a
> second or two, then the familiar lilo prompt..
>
> Been working great ever since.
Did RedHat put LILO in the MBR of the first drive (most common place)
or in the boot sector of the Linux root partition (alternate place)?
Or, do you boot Linux from diskette?
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Jan Carlson
janc@iname.com Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
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