Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Barry Schwartz <chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] cant boot off sata disk
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 01:58:48
Message-Id: 20090409015842.GA20472@crud.chemoelectric.org
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] cant boot off sata disk by Paul Hartman
1 Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> skribis:
2 > On Wed, Apr 8, 2009 at 6:06 PM, Barry Schwartz
3 > <chemoelectric@×××××××××××××.org> wrote:
4 > > (When I had a machine dual-booting to MSDOS and Slackware, I used the
5 > > DOS MBR and wrote LILO into the boot record of a Linux partition.)
6 >
7 > When I dual-booted OS/2 and Slackware, I installed LILO to a floppy
8 > disk. Floppy in drive at boot = linux, floppy ejected = OS/2. :)
9
10 At first I used floppy, according to the installation instructions,
11 but this was slow and so then for a few years I booted into MSDOS and
12 then ran whatever the kernel-loader for DOS was called. After some
13 experience with LILO at work I switched over to LILO.

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Re: [gentoo-amd64] cant boot off sata disk Paul Hartman <paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com>