install problems

Mike Bilow mikebw at colossus.bilow.com
Fri May 26 17:51:12 EDT 2000


There is no need for /boot to be a separate partition.  Unless you have a
special situation, /boot is usually an ordinary directory below the
partition mounted as the root filesystem (/).

The most likely problem here is that the "lilo" command was not run.

-- Mike


On 2000-05-26 at 13:18 -0400, Brian J. Conway wrote:

> You need to run fdisk (dos or linux versions) and set the /boot partition
> (or maybe just /, depending on your setup) active.  This isn't done by
> default in most linux partitioning programs, and there's no glaring error
> that comes up if you try to exit linux's fdisk without setting one active
> (as opposed to dos fdisk).


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