Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sun, 9 Jun 1996 00:23:12 +0200 (MET DST) | From | Bernhard Kaindl <> | Subject | Re: dead keyboard, once again |
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On Sat, 8 Jun 1996, Herbert Rosmanith wrote: [Has keyboard prob. with loadlin, but not with lilo] > usually I boot with loadlin, because it's not possibly to install lilo > on my mixed system (IDE=m$/dos, SCSI=linux) without having a hang the > next time I boot (lilo writes something like "Warning, bios drive 0x82(?) > not accessible" when trying to install the mbr).
You can use lilo when you:
Install a minimal filesystem(eg. /boot) for lilo, libs, ld.so and your kernels into the first 512MB of your ide disk and run the map installer by "cd /boot;chroot /boot /boot/sbin/lilo". You have more work for maintaining the boot, but the root disk have not to be installed by the bios and you don't have to use DOS for booting linux.
Bernhard
BTW: fips(on most Linux-CDs) is a fine tool for non-desructively shrinking of DOS-partitions. Used it a without any prob.
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