LILO doesn't require you to use Windows to set it up for configure it
(but does require Linux); BootMagic is the opposite.
On Sun, 19 Mar 2000, you wrote:
| I have a similar situation with LILO and BootMagic which I use to boot Win98
| and
| Linux, I have thus far stopped it from loading automatically. I would like
| to know if
| there is any advantage to running LILO over other "boot managers" on the
| market??
| Vern
|
| ----- Original Message -----
| From: Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
| Sent: Sunday, March 19, 2000 10:41 AM
| Subject: [expert] v7 Minor Annoyance
|
|
| > Having used loadlin to boot linux for about five years now I'm rather
| > annoyed by the v7 installation process. It assumed that I wanted to use
| > LILO and went ahead and installed it.
| >
| > This would appear to make it impossible for me to continue to use
| > linux95.exe as I have been doing and would like to be able to continue to
| do.
| >
| > This leads me to ask a number of questions:
| >
| > 1. Is it possible to go from Win95 to linux as I have been doing and
| would
| > like to continue to do, and in the other direction (I have no particular
| > objection to LILO, but I do a lot of cross platform work on this
| particular
| > machine and liked the way that I've been changing OS's)?
| >
| > 2. How do I get rid of LILO? As I recall it's a DOS fdisk command, but
| > I'd like to know the exact syntax.
| >
| > Thanks in advance.
| > Stephen P. Molnar, Ph.D. Life is a fuzzy set
| > Foundation for Chemistry Stochastic and multivariant
| > http://web.jadeinc.com/FoundationChem
| >
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