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?

Thanks

Huub

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?
>
> Thanks
>
> Huub

I'm not sure either, maybe someone will be more accurate than me but
hope this will help.

You should first edit your /etc/lilo.conf and modify

boot=/dev/fd0

to

boot=/dev/hda

and check the root=/dev/hdax

if any.

accordingly.


But, I'm not sure of myself so be careful.

Jacques

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.

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?

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?
>
> Thanks
>
> Huub

Hi.

Put this in your /etc/lilo.conf file:

prompt
timeout=50
default=Slack-2.4.25
boot=/dev/hda
map=/boot/map
install=/boot/boot.b
message=/boot/message

image=/boot/vmlinuz
label=Slack-2.4.22
root=/dev/hda1
read-only

image=/boot/linux-2.4.25
label=Slack-2.4.25
root=/dev/hda1
read-only

image=/boot/linux-2.6.4
label=Slack-2.6.4
root=/dev/hda1
read-only

other=/dev/hda3
optional
label=Windows

As you can see, i've got several options at startup, i can boot up with
diferent kernel versions, and i can even boot Windows in another partition.
Change my settings to your needs. I've got 4 options at startup but you can
delete it and have just one. You can either change the default bootable
option (OS) with the parameter: "default=Slack-2.4.25"
Change it to whatever you want, just have to be equal the corresponding
label parameter.
Enjoy.

NOTE: After changing lilo.conf don't forget to run this comand: lilo

That's all.

Best regards,
Nuno Paquete.

>>>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?

Yes, that will be fine. But if you plan on keeping it there long-term, it's
probably better style to change lilo.conf to say boot=/dev/hdc and then you
can run lilo without any options.

MikeyD wrote:
>>>>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?
>
>
> Yes, that will be fine. But if you plan on keeping it there long-term, it's
> probably better style to change lilo.conf to say boot=/dev/hdc and then you
> can run lilo without any options.
I did it, but to no avail. I also changed the bootable-flag from / to
/boot. When booting from harddisk, it keeps coming with LI 99. Luckily I
still have the boot-floppy. Any idea?

"Huub" <v.niekerk@freeler.nl> wrote in message
news:ynKtc.539$9n5.68@amstwist00...
> MikeyD wrote:
> >>>>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?
> >
> >
> > Yes, that will be fine. But if you plan on keeping it there long-term,
it's
> > probably better style to change lilo.conf to say boot=/dev/hdc and then
you
> > can run lilo without any options.
> I did it, but to no avail. I also changed the bootable-flag from / to
> /boot. When booting from harddisk, it keeps coming with LI 99. Luckily I
> still have the boot-floppy. Any idea?

Then instead of installing to MBR, install to boot partition. I always
use liloconfig (after backing up lilo.conf, to keep the stuff I don't want
overwritten, like 'vga=ext'), and when I get LILO 99 from one, I do it
again and pick the other (MBR/boot sector).

It affects the same boot= line in lilo.conf, but I don't want to tell you
what to put there since it's your drive. liloconfig will find your boot
sectors.

Good Luck!
Rich