Quick Linux Q: If you have / and /boot, where do you install LILO?

[SUOrangeman]

I've never made good use of a /boot partition, so I don't know which of those partitions should be referenced in /etc/lilo.conf.

Assume this condition: I don't want to install LILO on the MBR. To date (without having a separate /boot volume), I always install LILO on the Linux root partition. Does having a /boot partition change this? Would I install LILO on / or /boot?

Thanks in advance.

-SUO

 

[jhu]

interesting. never encountered that before. here's my guess: if your version of lilo has that 1024 cylinder limitation then install lilo on the /boot partition (assuming it's below 1024) because once it loads the kernel, the kernel can find your root partition wherever it is. if your lilo doesn't have that problem then i guess you can install it anywhere.

 

[Dulanic]

I always kept my own 16MB /boot partition and put Lilo there. So that if I ever changed OSes etc I would just go into my /boot partition and change it around. Even for a while when I got rid of Linux I still used Lilo to boot between my other OSes... Just had to have a linux boot disk to get access to lilo.

 

[SUOrangeman]

Thanks folks. I had figured as much, but not having tried itleft me a little weary.

-SUO