Re: Quick Question lilo or grub booting

On 2008-01-21, jasee <jasee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Whiskers wrote:
On 2008-01-20, jasee <jasee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Whiskers wrote:
On 2008-01-20, jasee <jasee@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Yes, this seems _very_ useful. There have been occasions when I
have lost it on the master boot record or it has turned itself into
something strange and impossible to boot from. Thanks, I'm using it
now.

It's somwhat weird though, the second partition's set active and
thats Linux fs3 with Linux on it, however I can't seem to make the
Linux loader install itself on that partition (I think its supposed
to be a 'superblock' install) Otherwise it tried to install itself
on the MBR and wipe out GAG. There's no problem booting to the first
partition with GAG which is where W2K is installed on NTFS, but even
when I've installed Lilo apparently correctly and I chose the
partition (which is marked fs2 BTW in GAG) and it tries to boot from
it, it says sector not found.

Which distro? What partitions have you got on that disc? Have you
given your Linux system a seperate /boot partition, or is it meant to
boot from / (which is the way I usually arrange things)?

Its slackware 12 It's simply meant to boot from / (actually /boot I suppose)

I think Slackware defaults to having /boot as a directory of the /
partition - but a seperate boot partition is possible. The installation
routine would probably take you through that choice, if it's available.

as a newbie I'm not really sure how the boot process works. Think it's
supposed to look for a vmlinuz* file within there. (which is certainly
there). There's just with the two partitions on the one disk as above. I'm
wondering whether GAG supports booting from a fs3 partition.

Where is LiLo? If you're using GAG in the MBR you need to install LiLo
(or Grub) to the / partition of your Linux system - GAG can't launch any
OS directly, all it does is look for the necessary 'loader'. If you can't
boot Slackware normally at present, the installation disc may have a
'repair' or 'upgrade' option that would get your system booted so that you
can check and correct the way LiLo or Grub is configured and installed.

I haven't encountered "fs2" or "fs3" as file systems for Linux; "ext2" and
"ext3" are the most commonly used, I think, and I've heard of ReiserFS and
XFS and JFS. GAG can certainly work with ext2 and ext3 - that's what I
have here.

I'm not familiar with Slackware, but there is a newsgroup
alt.os.linux.slackware which would be worth a look.

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