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- From: almesber@nessie.cs.id.ethz.ch (Werner Almesberger)
- Subject: Re: LILO
- Message-ID: <1992Aug26.152243.7862@bernina.ethz.ch>
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- Organization: Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH), Zurich, CH
- References: <1992Aug25.230353.1794@cis.ohio-state.edu>
- Date: Wed, 26 Aug 1992 15:22:43 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug25.230353.1794@cis.ohio-state.edu> zwerin@cis.ohio-state.edu (Andrew Zwerin) writes:
- > Can anyone tell me how to accomplish this? It would be a great help
- > if you could also explain the options I should be using?
-
- Your /etc/lilo/install should probably look like this:
-
- /etc/lilo/lilo -b /dev/hda -i /etc/lilo/boot.b -c \
- linux=/Image \
- msdos=/etc/lilo/chain.b+/dev/hda1@/dev/hda
-
- Then you boot linux by default and you can manually chose linux or
- msdos. -c compacts the map file, which usually makes booting a bit
- faster.
-
- Unless you're terribly short on disk space, you should also add an
- alternate boot image, e.g.
-
- linux.orig=/Image.orig \
-
- If you should ever damage your main boot image or if you update it
- and forget to re-run /etc/lilo/install, you can still boot that
- alternate boot file.
-
- - Werner
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