Booting without bootloader in MBR
 

I have installed DSL (Knopixx /DSL same thing) on hdd3, and did not install a bootloader.

The drive is disbaled in the bios.. so i cant boot it normally and dos does not detect it. But win98 and linux do..

How do i boot to the install in hdd3, using a live cd?(I have Knoppix / DSL / Gentoo / MEPIS / Slakcwarew live cd's)

since you have gentoo and i presume you know how to use it, you should be capable for the following.

Boot any live CD preferably the gentoo (no gui need)

mount -t ext3 /dev/hdd3 /mnt/linux

chroot /mnt/linux
env-update /mnt/linux (i think it was)

you should be looking at / as being what was on th hdd3.

vi /etc/lilo.conf (change of create it)
/sbin/lilo (will write it to the boot record)
reboot (it should boot on its own as long as you set bios to boot from hdd Secondary Slave)

do you have another Linux installed, and does IT have a bootloader? If so, you would edit the config file for that Linux setup.
You can always install bootloader later---from any Linux distro. GRUB manual has the details.

no, i dont have a bootloader installed.
Will do it from gentoo.
Thanks to you guys.