On Sunday 26 August 2001 22.32, Richard Bos wrote:
The following challenge, I have:
a 200MB harddisk with a corrupt MBR. I want to install freesco on it (a router on floppy, which can be copied with move2hdd to harddisk). I've the router images copied to the harddrive, but due to the corrupt MBR the harddisk does not come further than LI...
What I want is to recreate an MBR that boots, the router.bat file. I tried to create an MBR with tomsrtb linux on floppy, but at launching lilo this one complains that /boot/boot.b does not exist. The computer has 16MB / 200MB HD, which is not enough to load suse-7.2 or to use the rescue functionality of the suse CD (it hangs halfway loading)
My lilo.conf contained:
other = /dev/hda1
The linux router will be installed on a dos file system. So I guess a should use an msdos utils diskette and format the fisk with -s or something like that (I"m really bad in dos things :)
Even though it's a DOS file system, you'll still be running linux, right? other= means you're booting dos/windows, and you don't want that I guess. And running DOS fdisk /mbr will similarly boot dos or windows. What you want is a lilo.conf file with install=/real/path/to/boot.b root=/dev/hda1 label=linux (or whatever) boot=/dev/hda Presumably, the freesco kernel has support for umsdos (linux on a fat file system), so that should be all that's needed, I think regards Anders