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06-20-2003, 06:12 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Toronto, Canada
Distribution: Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04)
Posts: 1,044
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Adding cdrom to lilo
Hi,
How can I add cdrom to lilo so that i can boot from it? I wanted to run knoppix so I want to add it to lilo.conf.
thanks
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06-20-2003, 06:20 PM
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Registered: Dec 2002
Location: England
Distribution: Used to use Mandrake/Mandriva
Posts: 2,794
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Why not set your BIOS to boot from cd, just like when you installed Mdk?  |
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06-20-2003, 06:21 PM
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Moderator
Registered: Jun 2001
Location: UK
Distribution: Gentoo, RHEL, Fedora, Centos
Posts: 43,417
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just add something like:
other=/dev/hdc
label=cdrom
to the end of /etc/lilo.conf and run "lilo" as root to update the MBR
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06-20-2003, 11:43 PM
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Senior Member
Registered: Apr 2003
Location: Toronto, Canada
Distribution: Ubuntu Jaunty (9.04)
Posts: 1,044
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wow 10000+ posts mr moderator. I wonder how long it took you to post thats many posts
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