booting q's

[anotherRod]

Hi, I've got some questions about booting up Redhat 6.2.
1. How do I get it to boot off my hard disk? As it sits right now I need a boot-disk.
2. How do I add something to the list of things that the system does when it boots. After several weeks of pain in December I got my adsl set-up, now every time I boot I need to log into root and type
ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 up
adsl-stop
adsl-start
ifconfig eth0 0.0.0.0 up
in order to get a connection. It was bareable for a while, now it's driving me nuts, so I'd like to add that to the boot-list(?)
3. How can I get out of X? -- I guess I selected the option when I installed to always startX, but now I realize I don't always want it...

Thanks, sorry for all the questions,
Rod

[anotherRod]

Ooops

Sorry bout the double post, guess I hit the back button & was posted again.

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/redface.gif

[MBMarduk]

Disclaimer: I haven't used RH.
Don't you have an boot image you can "rawrite" on a floppy from Windoze?

[MBMarduk]

Like, have you tried in here: http://www.linuxnewbie.org/nhf/intel/osbooting/ first?

[anotherRod]

I do have a boot floppy, and it does work...like I say, I've been doing it like that for a while now, looking for a better solution.

[anotherRod]

No, sorry I didn't see that. Will give it a try.

Thank You

[MBMarduk]

http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/Forum6/HTML/002731.html

[anotherRod]

I'm having trouble picking through all this stuff, mostly because redhat is the only/primary o/s on this hd.(I swap hd's instead of dual-booting)

Can I just get rid of lilo alltogether?


- (got it to start outside of x) http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[MBMarduk]

OK, excuse me if I sound like a teacher, sorry.

LILO is a bootloader. You CAN get rid of it but you'll need something else, like GRUB.
Remember Win98, DOS, ALL OS-es need a boot loader. just so happens LILO can be used for nearly ALL OS-es.

Just put LILO in your MBR and you'll be fine. (And, ofcourse, as a backup you FIRST put LILO on floppy. Boot THAT so you know the kernel on the HDD boots, THEN write it to the MBR.


Hope this helps. http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/smile.gif

[anotherRod]

Don't worry about being a 'teacher' -- that's what I was asking for. Now just trying to figure out how to change the mbr, tried updating and selecting the choice to write lilo to the mbr, http://www.linuxnewbie.org/ubb/frown.gif didn't work.
I appreciate being pointed in the right direction! I've had 'nuff for tonight, though.

Thanks!