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Re: Lilo question...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Cunning)
Thu Oct 24 13:06:36 1996
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 09:57:08 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jim Cunning <jcunning@NTS.cts.com>
To: Skull <skull@yakko.cs.wmich.edu>
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On Thu, 24 Oct 1996, Skull wrote:
> Ok, one last thing, I ran the lilo v17 quickinst shell script, and it said
> something about missing 'activate', which I presume is something to activate
> my boot partition or something? Perhaps this is my problem that I don't have it
> and since this machine never had anything on it before Linux that it needs to
> do something wierd that only activate does??? I guess perhaps I'm grabbing at
> straws, but I'd like to get the damn lilo to work. So far, other than this,
> I've stumped everyone who has tried to help me.
>
> Darron
You've hit the idea I was going to suggest if I didn't run into any other
responses along the same line as I read through the 162 messages that
came in this morning.
My guess is you need to run fdisk to mark your root partition active.
You can verify this by displaying the partition table with the fdisk "p"
command. You should have something like this:
Device Boot Begin Start End Blocks Id System
/dev/hda1 * 121 121 425 153720 83 Linux native
/dev/hda2 426 426 466 20664 82 Linux swap
/dev/hda3 467 467 2484 1017072 83 Linux native
/dev/hda4 1 1 120 60448+ 6 DOS 16-bit >=32M
I have LILO installed in the superblock of my root partition so I can
boot DOS on the rare occasions I need to. Use the fdisk "a" command to
mark your active partition if none is.
Jim
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