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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

I think you mean I can boot Bl3 and use the lilo that comes with it (is it 
included in just the 2 floppy version or also in the loop version?), mount 
ext2 BL3 partition and cd to it and then run lilo, then mount ext2 BL2 and 
cd to it and run the same lilo with different switches and/or lilo.conf.

In lilo.conf I need a line about read-write for BL3 but not for BL2 
(should I specify read-only or is that default) so I should edit that line 
before using lilo to install kernel to BL2.

lilo -v -b /dev/hdb1   for BL3 or /dev/hdb2 for Bl2 (after cd'ing) using 
the lilo.conf from BL3 and editing the read-write line.

But I don't really need the -b /dev/hbXX line if I CD to the / of BL2 or 
BL3 and can just type lilo -v, if I have the kernel in the /boot directory 
of BL2 or BL3 and am at / when I run lilo.

Is this right?  All I really need to do is change lilo.conf from 
read-write to read-only, and mount and CD to the correct BL version, and 
put the kernel there in /boot, then lilo -v?

Is there some way to specify read-write or read-only command-line and not 
use the lilo.conf at all?

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> sindi keesan wrote:
> > do I need a DIFFERENT lilo package for BL2 than
> > the one for Bl1 or Bl3 or SW4.0
>
> Yes.
>
> > or are these all the same (independent of libc versions)?
>
> The lilo executable for BL2 is glibc2.  The lilo
> executable for BL1/BL3 is libc5.  However, it is
> possible to run the executable from BL2 and write
> the loader for a BL1/BL3 partition.  And vice versa.
>
> > The BL3 package puts the kernel into the linux
> > partition superblock?
>
> There is no separate lilo package for BL3.  The lilo
> package for BL1 puts the loader at the start of the
> current root partition.  It looks for the kernel in
> the /root directory.
>
> Cheers,
> Steven
>
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