Sean Finney on Thu, 1 Aug 2002 11:45:29 -0400


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Re: [PLUG] LILO help 

On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 11:28:19AM -0400, Doug Crompton wrote:
> Yes, lilo.conf was edited.
> 
>  I was reading the LILO info in the SUSE manual and I think that my
> problem may be that I am trying to write the boot record to the logical
> (/boot) partition rather than the MBR. I have hda5 through hda11 as
> logical partitions, hda5 being a small /boot, hda6 is swap, hda7 is root,
> etc. In LILO I have the boot setting at hda5. I am going to try dropping
> the 5 and just make it hda thus writing to the MBR of the drive. Does this
> sound like a good way to go?

yeah, it does, and in fact i think that's what you want (that's what i
have, anyway).  

--sean

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