[Nottingham] Partitioning works now but can't boot

Robert Hart nottingham at mailman.lug.org.uk
Thu Oct 10 12:44:01 2002


On Thu, 10 Oct 2002, Martin Waryniak wrote:

> Hi guys,
> 
> I got the partitions sorted out thanks to your help and Linucx installed 
> but again BootMagic doesn't recognise an OS on that drive.

I don't know anything about BootMagic, but I would have thought that you
should install lilo on the partition that linux would boot from. BootMagic
would need to know a lot about your linux setup in order to do without
a linux bootloader.

You should probably read the lilo documentation.

Rob

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