[ale] Almost home with Slack-9.1
Jason Day
jasonday at worldnet.att.net
Fri Oct 17 14:52:08 EDT 2003
On Fri, Oct 17, 2003 at 10:32:21AM -0700, Kevin Karst wrote:
>
> use the MBR by writing these entries in lilo.conf
>
> boot=/dev/hda (MBR)
>
> then later on in the choice section
> root=/dev/hda1 (partition of root)
And don't forget to run lilo after you modify /etc/lilo.conf . Some
BIOSes have problems booting from large partitions, which is why most
distros recommend you install a 10-50 MB boot partition. How big is
/dev/hda1?
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