On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 10:48:42PM +1000, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Sun, Jun 06, 1999 at 02:03:40AM +0200, Jean-Yves F. Barbier wrote: > > They're (unfortunately) right, MacroSOB products don't care about other OS; > > making 'fdisk /MBR' will bring you back to the beginning... winbrock only... > > This is exactly what you shouldn't install LILO in the MBR. The Debian default > is /dev/hdaN, not /dev/hda, and there's a good reason for it. > > You see, if you have LILO in your Linux root's boot sector, to change > whether to boot Linux or Win95 directly, all you have to do is change > the active partition using FDISK on either linux or MS-DOS. > > I'm not sure why everybody seems to do this, but every few weeks I find > myself posting the same thing on this list. Is it an old diehard Slackware > habit or something?
Well, I do it because I have problems booting from the 2nd hard drive, which is where my linux / resides... I therefore have lilo installed in /dev/hda and set up to dual-boot either /dev/hda1 (win) or /dev/hdb2 (linux). It may not be the right thing to do, however it has always worked flawlessly for me. > > Hamish > -- > Hamish Moffatt VK3SB (ex-VK3TYD). > CCs of replies from mailing lists are welcome. > > Mike -- Michael Merten [EMAIL PROTECTED] NRA Life Member --------------------------------------------------------------------- "Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect everyone who approaches that jewel." -- Patric Henry -- Virginia's U.S. Constitution ratification convention [NRA-ILA (www.nraila.org)] --------------------------------------------------------------------- This signature was automatically generated with Signify v1.05. For this and other cool products, check out http://www.debian.org/.
