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<H2><A NAME="s9">9.</A> <A HREF="LILO.html#toc9">LILO after the installation of Mandrake Linux 9.1 on HP products</A></H2>
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<P>2003-11-19</P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss9.1">9.1</A> <A HREF="LILO.html#toc9.1">Description of the products used in this experiment</A>
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<P><EM>Notice: Folks, that part is <B>NOT</B> a commercial for HP
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production of any means! In fact, a series of HP computers I have been using
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has delivered failures in power supply units, problems with hard disks etc.
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On the other side, laptop's batteries get exhausted earlier than expected.
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Other than these issues, HP machines are fine.</EM></P>
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<P><B>HP Omnibook 6000</B></P>
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<P>A laptop computer Omnibook 6000 is equipped with a 'bootable' DVD
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drive and recently, at an ICT conference, I bought a bootable DVD-ROM
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with Mandrake Linux 9.1 installation. After booting the laptop with
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that bootable DVD, it gets directly to the Linux installation menu.</P>
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<P><B>HP Vectra VL420 (used as a server)</B></P>
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<P>In opposite, an HP Vectra VL420 doesn't have a DVD drive (it only
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has a CD drive), so the direct installation from that particular
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installation DVD is not possible. But, an option of making
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a bootable floppy disk for starting the installation procedure
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<EM>is</EM> possible. In fact, several boot images are available
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for those users who don't have (bootable or not) DVD drive. One
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of the images is a 'network' one. That means, in a local area network
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there has to be either a NFS, FTP or HTTP server from which the
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installation will take place. </P>
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<P><B>HP Vectra VL420 (used as a workstation)</B></P>
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<P>Another VL420 desktop system I also use, has a spare HDD from a
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previous Windows 2000 server installation (actually, that IDE disk was moved
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from the other computer where it was a primary one and here it is the second
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one disk for backup data). The nice things is that it has a HTTP and FTP
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servers installed (of course, usable if the system is boot from that disk).
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That was good so I could use one of these servers now.</P>
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<P>So, I made a 'network' bootable floppy and booted the first Vectra
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VL420 (intended to be a Linux server) with it. After a while, it
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came to a point to choose the installation method (NFS or FTP or
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HTTP server). At first, I wanted to use the second 'spare' HTTP
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server at the other Vectra mentioned above, but regardless of what
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permission I tried to give to the 'Everyone' group of Windows users,
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I always got the following answer from the Linux setup:</P>
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<P>Error: Couldn't get file ... (or something like that)</P>
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<P>Then I tried to use the FTP 'spare' server from the second Vectra and at
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first it also asked for local and remote IP addresses. That time successfully,
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it started to load a part of the remote Linux files into its memory without
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any complaint. Soon after, it came to the very same position as Omnibook
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6000 did: it got directly to the installation menu, asking a user to choose
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a language for the installation use.</P>
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<P>>From that point, the setup process was almost the same...</P>
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<P>I have chosen/confirmed the following items:</P>
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<P>- a language to use, besides English(American) as default: I added
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Unicode and Serbian (both Cyrillic and Latin);
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- a mouse and keyboard;
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- a security level - I accepted defaults: 'Standard' for laptop and 'Higher'
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for server;</P>
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<P>The next important task was to choose one of <EM>DrakX</EM>
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partitioning options: </P>
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<P>- for laptop I chose the 'Use the free space on the Windows
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partition', because the laptop has one IDE hard disk and I wanted
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it to use a part of it for Linux (besides existing Windows 2000 Prof.
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already installed). Windows' Disk Management reported: </P>
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<PRE>
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Disk 0 15 MB FAT (HP Diagnostics or like)
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7.13 GB FAT32 (C: "HPNOTEBOOK")
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20.80 GB Free space
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</PRE>
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</P>
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<P>The two partitions (FAT & FAT32) were made during the installation
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procedure using HP's supplied installation CD's.</P>
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<P>At the first moment, Linux setup complained that my Windows partition
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"was too fragmented" and required me to reboot under Windows, run
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the "defrag" utility, then restart the Mandrake Linux installation.
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The defragmentation process have taken cca. 1.5 hour to be completed!
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When restarted the setup, it wanted to use 7.13 GB Windows partition,
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instead of 20.80 GB. I chose to 'Use the free space'. Then it made partitions
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for Linux: /dev/hda5 and /dev/hda7.</P>
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<P>- for Vectra VL420 I used 'Custom disk partitioning' because there
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I had two SCSI disks, one of them running Windows 2000 Server
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already installed, and the other one I wanted to use entirely for a
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Linux server. BTW, I wasn't sure what the option 'Erase entire disk'
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would do during its next step (erase a whole disk or a partition?),
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although it also may be the proper solution too. <EM>DrakX</EM>
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recognized the two SCSI disks as <B>sda</B> and <B>sdb</B>
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and I chose <B>sdb</B> to install Linux. The first step was to 'Clear
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all' and after that to 'Auto allocate' the space on that second disk.
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Finally, after a 'Done' it appeared to make /dev/sdb1 and /dev/sdb6
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Linux partitions.</P>
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<H2><A NAME="ss9.2">9.2</A> <A HREF="LILO.html#toc9.2">What does LILO looks like on these HP products</A>
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<P><B>HP Omnibook 6000</B></P>
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boot=/dev/hda
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map=/boot/map
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vga=normal
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default="windows"
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keytable=/boot/us.klt
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prompt
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nowarn
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timeout=100
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message=/boot/message
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menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
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image=/boot/vmlinuz
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label="linux"
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root=/dev/hda5
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initrd=/boot/initrd.img
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append="quiet devfs=mount acpi=off"
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read-only
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image=/boot/vmlinuz
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label="failsafe"
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root=/dev/hda5
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initrd=/boot/initrd.img
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append="failsafe devfs=nomount acpi=off"
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read-only
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other=/dev/hda2 <--- /dev/hda1 seems to be reserved for some HP diags.
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label="windows"
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table=/dev/hda
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other=/dev/fd0
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label="floppy"
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unsafe
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</P>
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<P><B>HP Vectra VL420 (installed as a desktop client Linux system)</B></P>
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<P>
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<PRE>
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boot=/dev/hda
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map=/boot/map
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vga=normal
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default="windows"
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keytable=/boot/us.klt
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prompt
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nowarn
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timeout=100
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message=/boot/message
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menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
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image=/boot/vmlinuz
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label="linux"
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root=/dev/hda5
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initrd=/boot/initrd.img
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append="quiet devfs=mount acpi=off"
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vga=788 <--- that line is missing at laptop with LCD screen above.
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read-only
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image=/boot/vmlinuz
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label="linux-nonfb"
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root=/dev/hda5
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initrd=/boot/initrd.img
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append="devfs=mount acpi=off"
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read-only
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image=/boot/vmlinuz
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label="failsafe"
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root=/dev/hda5
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initrd=/boot/initrd.img
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append="failsafe devfs=nomount acpi=off"
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read-only
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other=/dev/hda1 <--- /dev/hda1 seems not to be reserved for HP diags here.
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label="windows" There I have Windows 2000 Professional already
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table=/dev/hda installed (probably without HP's supplied CD's).
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other=/dev/hdb1 <--- that is the spare disk with Windows 2000 Server.
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label="windows2" Actually I had some data on it and used it as a
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table=/dev/hdb second, backup disk on that desktop workstation.
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map-drive=0x80 I have never tried to boot the computer from it, but
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to=0x81 Mandrake's setup offered it as a boot option.
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map-drive=0x81 (And that was useful as a FTP server, needed to install
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to=0x80 Mandrake Linux on the other box - without DVD drive too).
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other=/dev/fd0
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label="floppy"
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unsafe
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</PRE>
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</P>
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<P><B>HP Vectra VL420 (installed as a desktop Linux system with server features)</B></P>
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<PRE>
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boot=/dev/sda <--- /dev/sda is the first SCSI disk where LILO resides (MBR).
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map=/boot/map
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vga=normal
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default="windows"
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keytable=/boot/us.klt
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prompt
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nowarn
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timeout=100
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message=/boot/message
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menu-scheme=wb:bw:wb:bw
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image=/boot/vmlinuz
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label="linux"
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root=/dev/sdb1 <--- /dev/sdb1 is the second SCSI disk where Linux resides.
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initrd=/boot/initrd.img
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append="quiet devfs=mount acpi=off"
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vga=788
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read-only
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image=/boot/vmlinuz
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label="linux-nonfb"
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root=/dev/sdb1
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initrd=/boot/initrd.img
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append="devfs=mount acpi=off"
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read-only
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image=/boot/vmlinuz-secure
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label="linux-secure" <--- something related to the Linux server security?
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root=/dev/sdb1
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initrd=/boot/initrd-secure.img
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append="quiet devfs=mount acpi=off"
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read-only
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image=/boot/vmlinuz
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label="failsafe"
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root=/dev/sdb1
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initrd=/boot/initrd.img
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append="failsafe devfs=nomount acpi=off"
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read-only
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other=/dev/sda1 <--- /dev/sda1 is the first partition on the first SCSI disk where Windows resides.
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label="windows"
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table=/dev/sda
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</PRE>
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<H2><A NAME="ss9.3">9.3</A> <A HREF="LILO.html#toc9.3">Conclusions</A>
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</H2>
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<P>>From the examples above, you could see that I have been using
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various computer forms with also various types of hard disk.
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Somewhere there is only one IDE drive, somewhere else there are
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two of them, otherwise there are a couple of SCSI drives etc. Regardless
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of that, I always tried to put LILO into the MBR - located on the <EM>first</EM>
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disk. Now it looks like that Linux finally managed to solve the old
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<EM>1024 cyl</EM> problem. In fact, LILO seems to be capable to boot
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Linux regardless it is placed close to the rest of Linux partitions or not.</P>
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<P>There are some other considerations related to the experiment above,
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but they are part of the other fine document:
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<A HREF="http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Linux+WinNT.html">Linux+WindowsNT</A> mini-HOWTO.</P>
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