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List:       linux-admin
Subject:    Re: Would this work...?
From:       James <james () piku ! org ! uk>
Date:       2000-11-27 21:33:32
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On Sun, 26 Nov 2000, Jens Knoell wrote:

# dd if=/boot/vmlinuz of=/dev/hda bs=512
# rdev /dev/hda /dev/hda2
# 
# i.e. booting without lilo, just with the kernel in the MBR?

Don't think it would... the kernel is bigger than 512 bytes, and if I
remember, there's some more vital disk stuff after the mbr (the partition
table lives somewhere round there).

You could just set the lilo timeout to 0 seconds so it doesn't wait for you.

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