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

On Sat, 29 Jul 2006, Karolis Lyvens wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 28, 2006 at 11:23:31PM +0000, sindi keesan wrote:
> > On Sat, 29 Jul 2006 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:
> >
> > > sindi keesan wrote:
> > 1.  Make a lilo.conf in /etc/  .
> > Neither book tells me which /etc to use if I have several linux
> > partitions.  Do I put the same file in BL3 and BL2 /etc ?
>
> I think that lilo.conf is needed only for "lilo" or "lilo -v"
> command. It is used for specifying options for putting lilo to MBR,
> so it's not relevant to which /etc it is put, as long as "lilo -v"
> sees that /etc/lilo.conf and builds lilo according to options in it.


Thanks.  I can also specify where to look for it:
lilo -C ./lilo.conf -v

I tried making a lilo floppy boot diskette (to an ext2-formatted boot 
floppy disk - one book said to make a minix-formatted floppy) and got back 
an error message about 0x100.

lilo.conf has   boot=/dev/fd0  (instead of boot=/dev/hda for hard disk)

I put the same kernel into a /boot directory in both linux partitions.

lilo.conf specifies 
image=/boot/kernelimage

Should I instead put the full path to the image file?
image=/dev/hdb1/boot/kernelimage

Do I have to copy boot.b to /boot on the ext2 partition or will lilo copy 
it for me?  The ramdisk version already has it in /boot.

Will lilo -u restore the original MBR or do I need to manually make a 
backup of it?  (This is why I am experimenting first with floppy disk).
I have DOS and linux, not Windows NT or XP or OS/2.

I don't think using ATI Rage X driver would work here, because the SVGA X 
driver did load and display properly but then crashed on exit, and for 
svgalib it identifies the chip correctly when booted with LILO, but 
crashes when booted with loadlin, when I use zgv.  So it is not a driver 
problem but a loadlin problem.  Therefore I need LILO or some other 
non-DOS loader.

Steven, does the SVGA X driver work with your ATI video chips?

Sindi