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08-01-2003, 10:56 PM
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Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Australia
Distribution: Redhat
Posts: 2
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lilo boot
hey, does lilo have to be installed on the MBR for it to run on boot.
i have it installed on another partition, but im still booting from a boot disk and its annoying me
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08-01-2003, 11:00 PM
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Registered: Nov 2002
Distribution: Slackware 9.0
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No, it doesn't. You need to toggle the bootable flag on the partition that lilo is on to 'true' (hint: 'fdisk'), and make sure all the others are false.
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08-01-2003, 11:03 PM
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LQ Newbie
Registered: Jul 2003
Location: Australia
Distribution: Redhat
Posts: 2
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ok, thanx for ur post, but i dont know what all that means. can u tell me how to do that boottable thing??
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08-02-2003, 12:27 AM
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Registered: May 2003
Location: Kerala,India
Distribution: RedHat,Mandrake,Debian
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May be this can help you... |
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