[601] in RedHat Linux List
Re: does fdisk?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Skull)
Wed Oct 23 16:06:40 1996
Date: Wed, 23 Oct 1996 16:03:09 -0400
To: redhat-list@redhat.com
From: Skull <skull@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
Resent-From: redhat-list@redhat.com
Reply-To: redhat-list@redhat.com
>> Does the linux fdisk have any way of doing a dos fdisk /MBR? Does linux
>> fdisk create an MBR by default on a newly installed system, or do you have
>> to use dos fdisk, then linux fdisk? I still can't get lilo to update my MBR
>> and boot w/o a floppy. I've done everything right, but it doesn't work.
>> I'm using lilo v19 with redhat 4.0, I think lilo 19 might be the prob, as
>> I never had this prob with lilo 17, which I no longer have.
>
>no fdisk mbr that I know of. That is what LILO is for. So are you saying
>you have a proper lilo.conf file in /etc and you type lilo and it doesn't
>work? You could always buy System Commander from RH and install LILO in
>super block of root partition. I have it and it is great fun.
>Anyway...more details would not hurt a bit.
I went over all of this before, but I guess I'll try again.
I have lilo on my system (lilo v19), my /etc/lilo.conf is correct, I run lilo -v
and it shows me everything it does. No errors, no complaints, it appears to
work perfect, I reboot, w/o a boot disk and I get 'DRIVE NOT READY, Insert BOOT
diskette in drive A:' from the bios I presume, or the cpu. ANyhow, I've tried
everything thats been suggested before, still it doesn't work. I have a 1.275GB
hard disk partioned off into about /dev/hda1 about 40MB swap, /dev/hda2 900+
megs
ext2 as / filesystem, and /dev/hda3 200 or so MB, ext2 as /tmp. This is exactly
how I have my partions setup on another Linux system I have that works with
lilo, except the exact partition sizes, this is a EIDE ATA-2 drive with a EIDE
i/o card.
Darron
My lilo -v looks like:
LILO version 19, Copyright 1992-1996 Werner Almesberger
Reading boot sector from /dev/hda2
Merging with /boot/boot.b
Boot image: /vmlinuz.2023-ping
Added linux *
Boot image: /vmlinuz.univ2021
Added lin2021
Boot image: /boot/vmlinuz
Added rh4dist
/boot/boot.0302 exists - no backup copy made.
Writing boot sector.
My /etc/lilo.conf looks like:
boot=/dev/hda2
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
prompt
timeout=50
image=/vmlinuz.2023-ping
label=linux
root=/dev/hda2
read-only
append = ""
image=/vmlinuz.univ2021
label=lin2021
root=/dev/hda2
read-only
append = ""
image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=rh4dist
root=/dev/hda2
read-only
append = ""
--
PLEASE read the Red Hat FAQ, Tips, HOWTO and the MAILING LIST ARCHIVES!
________________________________________________________________________
http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-FAQ http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-HOWTO
http://www.redhat.com/RedHat-Tips http://www.redhat.com/mailing-lists
------------------------------------------------------------------------
To unsubscribe: mail -s unsubscribe redhat-list-request@redhat.com < /dev/null
