Re: [Plug] Formatting ext2

["LeRoy D. Cressy" <ldc@netaxs.com>]

Well, where is lilo installed?  There are options to install it on the
mbr (master boot record of the drive or on an active partition.  When
you run fdisk or cfdisk you should mark one of the partitions as
bootable.  I like using my linux root partition as the boot partition. 
Then I install lilo on that root partition with the following lines in
/etc/lilo.conf:


boot=/dev/hda4
root=/dev/hda4

These tell lilo where the boot partition is and etc.  If you have it
pointing to just the disk /dev/hda then it writes to the mbr.  Then when
you run windows it sees a messed up mbr and fixes it.  

Moral of the story:

make an ext2 partition a bootable partition with fdisk
set lilo.conf boot parameters to point to that partition with the boot
line.  

Please read the lilo user's guide in /usr/doc/lilo?



umweber@mcs.drexel.edu wrote:
> 
> speaking of the mbr, does anyone know why once in awhile, and this only
> happens when the machine isn't properly shut down, that the mbr has been
> magicially wiped of lilo, and I see that scary "Starting Windows 98..."
> What could be doing this? I am only just  curious because and don't really

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