[ILUG] Lilo Question...

[Wynne, Conor]

Cool, looks like that's my boy.

I had tried using boot params from a lilo boot disk (after moving the drive
from /dev/hdd physically by the jumper to /dev/hda, but I was guessing the
parametres.

I tried:
linux /dev/hda
but alas, no joy.

Later,
CW

-----Original Message-----
From: McAuley, Tim [mailto:T.McAuley at emuse.ie]
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 4:01 PM
To: Ilug (E-mail)
Subject: RE: [ILUG] Lilo Question...


> 
> On Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 03:49:45PM -0000 or thereabouts, 
> McAuley, Tim wrote:
> > > > - Used fdisk to rearrange the the drive lettering, to match 
> > > the physical
> > > > partitions (an option under expert), and set ONLY hda2 active:
> > > > hda1	Windows
> > > > hda2	23MB Linux 
> > > > hda3	<Extended>	(was hda2, hence needed to fix 
> > > drive "lettering")
> > > > hda5	swap
> > > > hda6	linux
> > > Now, how do you do that with fdisk?
> > > 
> > 
> > Do what exactly? Resize the partition, or just change 
> active one etc...
> > 
> > Not sure if fdisk can resize partitions, but it would be 
> interesting if it
> > could, or at least there was a Linux equivalent of 
> Partition Magic. PM seems
> > pretty stable, and looks after your data (I think).
> > 
> No, you said "Used fdisk to rearrange the the drive 
> lettering". How'd you do
> that?  I can do the rest...
> 
> I think parted can do that but I'm not sure.

oh right.. one sec

ahh, here it is:

run fdisk, choose 'x' expert, 
   f   fix partition order

That's for when the lettering is out of sync with the actual order of the
partitions on the disk, i.e. when you add a new one in the middle, like I
did.

That's it.

Tim