how to get linux MBR

[Gorman, John]

The problem is that system commander does not see a valid 
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)

Thanks

John


|-----Original Message-----
|From: Rusty Carruth [mailto:rustyc@user2.inficad.com]
|Sent: None
|To: plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us
|Subject: Re: how to get linux MBR
|
|
|> 
|> I just finished rebuilding linux after a clean sweep.
|> 
|> I now have a problem, where I can boot from the boot diskette,
|> but LILO will not boot from the disk.
|> 
|> Does anyone know either how to fix this, or how I get the linux MBR.
|> 
|> I am using system commander, and have linux on disk 2 (hdc2)
|
|what happens when you boot?
|
|Where did you tell lilo (in /etc/lilo.conf) to put itself?
|
|(Basically, you want to tell lilo to go into /dev/hda, and point
|it at /hdc2, some thing like this:
|
|boot = /dev/hda
|timeout = 20
|prompt
|  default = linux
|  vga = normal
|  read-only
|map=/boot/map
|install=/boot/boot.b
|image = /boot/vmlinuz-2.2.12-20
|  label = linux
|  initrd = /boot/initrd-2.2.12-20.img
|  root = /dev/hdc2
|
|
|where /boot on /dev/hdc2 has your images, named as above
|(or change the names, of course!)
|
|rusty
|
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