MikeyD wrote:
> Huub wrote:
>
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>Until now I booted my Slack with a floppy. Now I want to boot it
>>directly from harddisk. As I read 'man lilo', I understand it says that
>>'lilo -M' will write lilo to the MBR. Is this a correct assumption?
>>
>
> No. That's the wrong thing to do. That installs a standard MBR, and is
> intended as a way to uninstall lilo if you've lost your boot sector backup.
> The correct way to do it is lilo -b /dev/hdx or /dev/sdx (whichever hard
> disk it is). Or change the boot= line in lilo.conf.
the boot= line says /dev/hdc2. So 'lilo -b /dev/hdc' will install lilo
in the MBR of /dev/hdc and I will be booting OK?