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- From: stern@amath.washington.edu (L.G. "Ted" Stern)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: YALQ (Yet Another Lilo Question!)
- Keywords: LILO, SLS, ps
- Message-ID: <1if7ieINNr5d@shelley.u.washington.edu>
- Date: 6 Jan 93 18:14:38 GMT
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- Organization: University of Washington, Applied Mathematics, Seattle
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- My setup:
-
- I have SLS .98pl1, with the kernel upgraded to .98pl5, all the z*fix.taz
- patches up to December 15, and LILO 0.6, with my DOS partition as the default,
- though I do most of my work under Linux. I have 4 primary partions: 1st
- one is DOS, next 3 are Linux/Minix, one of which is a swap partiion.
- My computer is an AMD 386-40 with a Cyrix 387, 8MB Ram, 128k cache
- (or is it 256?), 234 MB 12ms hard drive, ISA bus, AT disk controller.
-
- My problem:
-
- In my eagerness to get Linux up without having to boot from a floppy, I
- installed LILO 0.6 without making sure that the MBR had been backed up
- correctly. (It wasn't!) Now I would like to do a couple of things:
- (i) change my partitioning setup so I have more of the HD available to Linux,
- [which means, I guess, having 1 primary, 1 extended, and several logical
- partions], and
- (ii) be ready to reinstall SLS when 1.00 comes out (therefore, I would like
- to have LILO 0.7 up and running). But I have LILO 0.6 running the
- entire boot process now, with no backup to the MBR!
-
- Questions:
-
- 1) Can LILO run the boot process once I have repartitioned and the disk
- information is inaccessible? I.e., where does LILO run from? The MBR
- or the partition?
-
- 2) How can I use MS-DOS 5.0 utilities to make a new Master Boot Record?
- or is BOOTACTV an acceptable alternative? My documentation of MS-DOS 5.0's
- fdisk is for morons :-) .
-
- I'm planning to put LILO 0.7 on ASAP, anyway, and I have, or will have very
- soon, complete backups of my DOS and Linux partitions.
-
- Another question, completely incidental:
-
- 3) Why does ps, which otherwise works normally, return the name of the
- process with the COMMAND listed as 0-2 characters in parentheses? E.g.,
- '(ty)'
- which I assume refers to 'getty' or something. Will this get fixed when
- I reinstall SLS in a couple of weeks?
-
- Thanks in advance for any help!
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- L.G. 'Ted' Stern --- Mostly a Grad Student Peon . . .
- stern@amath.washington.edu
- lstern@orville.nas.nasa.gov
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