how to get linux MBR

[Kevin Brown]

I've used SC and it is a very useful program.  To get it to work with Lilo make
sure that you had Lilo installed in the first sector of the root partition. 
Then all you have to do is point SC to that partition for booting Linux.  The
only problem I had was figuring out which Ext2 partition was the root for
linux.  Simple solution, try them one at a time till one boots, heheh.

Rusty Carruth wrote:
> 
> >
> > The problem is that system commander does not see a valid
> 
> Wait a sec - how exactly are you planning to boot - using system
> commander or lilo?
> 
> > bootable, MBR record for linux. If I could get it to boot LILO
> > I would be fine, but I can not even get it to boot LILO (except
> > from the boot diskette)
> 
> in the installs I've done, (and some of them got PRETTY strange - i had
> a system set up one time where I could boot from one boot loader to another
> all day long - I had NT's boot loader, OS/2's boot loader, and LILO all
> inter-linked - yeah, don't try this at home ;-) ...
> 
> Ok, lets start that again.  In the installs I've done, I either use
> the 'dumber' boot loaders from 'normal' os's and let them point to
> lilo on the linux root partition on /dev/hda, OR I install lilo on
> the MBR and let IT be the first thing to see life, then let it know
> that my boot images are on a different drive.  I don't recall ANY
> boot loaders other than LILO being able to do that (but now someone
> will correct me ;-)
> 
> So, do you reeally NEED system commander as the MBR boot loader?
> 
> if not, boot linux from  your floppy, set up lilo.conf sorta like I suggested
> last message, run lilo (make sure it was happy), and reboot...  LILO
> should now be your MBR boot loader and be able to find your bootable
> image over on /dev/hdc.
> 
> OR, if you absolutely MUST use SC, either install it somewhere other than
> the MBR and let lilo boot to it as the second stage boot loader, OR
> install LILO on /dev/hdc and tell SC to boot there (assuming it CAN), OR
> make a small partition on /dev/hda, put lilo there (pointing to your /dev/hdc
> linux partition), and tell SC to boot THAT.
> 
> If none of those work, then I'm fresh out of ideas!  A SC guru
> will have to take over...
> 
> rusty
> 
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> > The problem is that system commander does not see a valid
> 
> Wait a sec - how exactly are you planning to boot - using system
> commander or lilo?
> 
> > bootable, MBR record for linux. If I could get it to boot LILO
> > I would be fine, but I can not even get it to boot LILO (except
> > from the boot diskette)
> 
> in the installs I've done, (and some of them got PRETTY strange - i had
> a system set up one time where I could boot from one boot loader to another
> all day long - I had NT's boot loader, OS/2's boot loader, and LILO all
> inter-linked - yeah, don't try this at home ;-) ...
> 
> Ok, lets start that again.  In the installs I've done, I either use
> the 'dumber' boot loaders from 'normal' os's and let them point to
> lilo on the linux root partition on /dev/hda, OR I install lilo on
> the MBR and let IT be the first thing to see life, then let it know
> that my boot images are on a different drive.  I don't recall ANY
> boot loaders other than LILO being able to do that (but now someone
> will correct me ;-)
> 
> So, do you reeally NEED system commander as the MBR boot loader?
> 
> if not, boot linux from  your floppy, set up lilo.conf sorta like I suggested
> last message, run lilo (make sure it was happy), and reboot...  LILO
> should now be your MBR boot loader and be able to find your bootable
> image over on /dev/hdc.
> 
> OR, if you absolutely MUST use SC, either install it somewhere other than
> the MBR and let lilo boot to it as the second stage boot loader, OR
> install LILO on /dev/hdc and tell SC to boot there (assuming it CAN), OR
> make a small partition on /dev/hda, put lilo there (pointing to your /dev/hdc
> linux partition), and tell SC to boot THAT.
> 
> If none of those work, then I'm fresh out of ideas!  A SC guru
> will have to take over...
> 
> rusty
> 
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