From: dvs@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de (Wolfgang R. Mueller) Subject: Re: Replacement for LILO? Date: Tue, 3 Aug 1993 09:54:13 GMT
In article <CAxuJC.110@nas.nasa.gov> gray@pong.nas.nasa.gov (Scott C. Gray) writes:
>After messing with LILO (to no avail) I still can't get the thing to
>install a boot block on /dev/hda2. Is there anything slightly more
>simple I could use?
As pong.nas.nasa.gov isn't known to the domain name system and so email is
impossible, here's a reply in public:
If you can rearange your haddisk, you could make hda2 a minimal (1 cylinder)
partition to contain the lilo bootblock, add the remaining space to the dos
extended partition, and install the linux root fs in a logical drive in this
extended partition.
Or you could use xiafs, which allows for an offset of the filesystem into
the partition to leave room for a kernel, and use the mkboot utilities to
put the kernel there. You should find mkboot under .../packages/GCC/bootdisk
on tsx-11 mirrors. Perhaps with this offset feature you could even use lilo.
Hope this helps,
Wolfgang R. Mueller <dvs@ze8.rz.uni-duesseldorf.de>,
Computing Centre, Heinrich-Heine-University, Duesseldorf, Germany.