[pocket-linux] boot.b

[David Horton]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: peter robinson [mailto:Peter.Robinson at t-online.de]
> Sent: Monday, March 8, 2004 10:41 PM
> To: 'Support for Pocket Linux Guide'
> Subject: Re: [pocket-linux] boot.b
> 
> 
> > Hi
> >
> > i did face the same problem on my system mandrake 9.2, there is no boot.s
> > to be copied only something like boot.0300
> > not too sure abt this and the size is 512 bytes. Creating a symbolic link
> > to boot.b didn't seem to resolve it.
> >
> > Deric
> >
> >
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> On Saturday 06 March 2004 22:54, dkis wrote:
> 
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I had the same problem. I wound up copying the boot.b from another computer. 
> Is it possible that your machine boots with grub rather than lilo? If you do 
> not have a file called boot.b then there is no use in linking to any of the 
> other files in the boot directory...
> 
> Peter
> :_)
> 

I believe that newer versions of LILO do not use boot.b anymore although I do not know which version this started with.  I think maybe it was 22.5, but don't quote me on this.  If you do 'lilo --version' you can see your version.  If it is higher than 22.5 you might not need boot.b.

Dave