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Re: boot question
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Thomas Gaume)
Wed Oct 28 10:42:43 1998
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 15:41:48 +0000
From: Thomas Gaume <tom@flwireless.net>
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I'm no expert on this but I believe you should be able to put an append
statement into your /etc/lilo.conf.
Such as:
append="hdh=cdrom"
Eric Cifreo wrote:
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Filion [mailto:filioda@videotron.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 28, 1998 7:48 am
> To: redhat-list@redhat.com
> Subject: boot question
>
> I use LILO to load Linux on my system. To get me cdrom to work I currently
> have to specify:
> linux hdh=cdrom
>
> Is there someway I can put the "hdh=cdrom" into a config file to eliminate
> my having to type it each time?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
> =====================================
> =====================================
>
> I believe if you add this line to /etc/lilo.conf,
> in the section that describes the image
> you are booting, it'll work.
>
> [eric@delbert /etc]$ more lilo.conf
> boot=/dev/sda
> map=/boot/map
> install=/boot/boot.b
> prompt
> timeout=50
> image=/boot/vmlinuz-2.0.34-0.6
> label=linux
> root=/dev/sda1
> initrd=/boot/initrd-2.0.34-0.6.img
> read-only // <--
> stick-it-here
>
> HTH
>
> Eric Cifreo
> Austin, TX
>
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