Hi I have successfully installed Slackware 9.1 on an ext2 partition and am running fluxbox. I have the following questions
I always boot through LOADLIN and and afraid to boot through LILO. I have prepared a boot floppy of slackware 9.1 and boot through this by manually giving the command mount root=/dev/hda8 My Pc config is as follows Celeron 500 64mb RAM 40G HDD 52x cdrom ASUS 1.44 FDD intel i810 chipset Win 98 and office 97 and other win software on C and D drive My problems 1. I have read that LILO writes the MBR and messing this up will also mess up my windows (I require Windows for other members of my family) 2. Is there an option for LILO and Loadlin which is safe (heard of GRUB) 3. I have worked with slackware for a year or so and I want to try out other distros like debian/knoppix/Fedora. Whether these distros have a option of booting without LILO?. PC does not support booting thru CD Thanks and Regards Ninad Bapat
On Thursday 11 March 2004 12:01, Ninad wrote:
Hi I have successfully installed Slackware 9.1 on an ext2 partition and am running fluxbox. I have the following questions
I always boot through LOADLIN and and afraid to boot through LILO.
Lilo is quite safe and does not pose any problem
My problems 1. I have read that LILOwrites the MBR and messing this up will also mess up my windows (I
All bootloaders write to the mbr and messing up WILL messup your system. But you can always recover if you are not able to boot to windows or linux PROVIDED the first thing you do is boot thru a dos floppy and run fdisk /mbr.
Grub is very flexible and useful if you juggle disks and mess about with partitions. You will need a menu.lst file in your /boot/grub directory. This file is not created when you install grub. Attached is my menu.lst and lilo.conf Suggest you stick to lilo. Post your /etc/lilo.conf so that any potential problems may be avoided. Also since you cant boot thru cd your bios must be quite old and will face problems with large disks. You may upgrade your bios - a dangerous task.
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Ninad