Does NE ONE know how to get LILO on disk?

[napkin_stealer]

when you install linux, how do u get LILO on a diskette rather than having it load in the master boot record???? argh!!! I dunno how! help please!!!!! :eek: :mad: :eek:

[cabu1966]

edit /etc/lilo.conf and be sure that you have:
boot=/dev/fd0
then rerun /sbin/lilo

[I Love NY]

You don't need to put lilo on a disk. What you should do is make a boot disk. It's different for every distrobution, but every distro should have a way to make a bootdisk. What distrobution are you using? Go to the website and find documentation on how to make a disk, and if you don't find anything, come back here and ask.

[I Love NY]

Originally posted by cabu1966:
<STRONG>edit /etc/lilo.conf and be sure that you have:
boot=/dev/fd0
then rerun /sbin/lilo</STRONG>
Wouldn't that just boot from the floppy? Or is that actually where lilo get's installed? I'm confused.

[cabu1966]

someone correct me if I'm wrong (happens alot :( )

this puts the lilo boot sector on the floppy.
also in the /etc/lilo.conf you would have:
root=/dev/hdx (x being the drive containing your / partition)
image=/boot/vmlinuz-yada.yada (or whatever your kernel is)

basically my understanding is....the system starts, hits the lilo bootdisk, which tells it where the root partition is and the kernels location.
It reads from the floppy long enough to get this info. Then it's all harddrive. This is much quicker than using a bootdisk w/ a kernel on it.

I've been booting my system like this for awhile now and it works perfect for me. That doesn't mean I fully comprehend it yet. But I'm learning :D .

[napkin_stealer]

:) I use Mandrake...for who ever wanted to know that!

edit /etc/lilo.conf and be sure that you have:
boot=/dev/fd0
then rerun /sbin/lilo
??? I don't understand that! :(
sorry! but I think what you have is what I want to get!

[I Love NY]

<STRONG>edit /etc/lilo.conf</STRONG>
That means you need to fire up an editor (vi, emacs, whatever) and check what's in your file. /etc/lilo.conf is a file that contains configuration info for lilo. I assume you're familiar with text editors - open one up and take a look at lilo.conf

<STRONG>be sure that you have:
boot=/dev/fd0</STRONG>
you need to find the line in the config file that has "boot=/dev/whatever", and change it to say "boot=/dev/fd0" That tells lilo to put the lilo boot information on the floppy so you can boot of the floppy.

<STRONG>then rerun /sbin/lilo
</STRONG>
When you make changes to /etc/lilo.conf, you need to run the program /sbin/lilo (type it into the commandline just like that). You could see it as applying the changes. Since you want the boot to be on the disk, you need to have your boot disk in teh drive when you run /sbin/lilo.

Hope that helps.

[cabu1966]

I Love NY:

Thanks for translating :D