On Wed, Sep 05, 2001 at 04:16:46PM +1000 or thereabouts, Matthew Dalton wrote: > Hall Stevenson wrote: > > > No worries here... Using seperate physical drives makes things > > much easier. This will actually be a LILO 'issue', but it can > > handle it just fine. One thing: Install Lilo to your 'first' > > (/dev/hdaX) hard disk's MBR. > > Don't install LILO to the MBR! If Windows 2000 is anything like NT (it > is supposed to be NT 5, after all), you will need to setup Linux to boot > from the Windows 2000 bootloader. > > If you install LILO to the MBR, you will likely render your Windows 2000 > installation unbootable. > <...snipped...> i object! always wanted to say that. :-)
i have win2k, linux, freebsd on my box and i use lilo to boot each OS. letting the win2k bootloader to boot your linux partition will only make it hard for you should you choose to recompile your kernel.
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