It's interesting that you've been recommending putting the boot record
into the boot record of the boot partition. That's exactly how I've been
setting up dual-boot Linux/NT systems. I was just surprised that Mandrake
setup the system correctly by default...
-Alex
Wirth's Law: Software gets slower faster than Hardware gets faster!
"On the side of the software box, in the 'System Requirements' section, it
said 'Requires Windows 95 or better'. So I installed Linux." - Anonymous
On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Benjamin Scott wrote:
> On Fri, 3 Nov 2000, Alex Hewitt USG wrote:
> > In the past I've always had to play games to get Win/NT to play nice with
> > Linux.
>
> I've always had to play games to get WinNT to work, period. :-)
>
> > Microsoft takes a search and destroy approach to multi-boot systems.
>
> For a change, this isn't Microsoft's fault. Linux is actually the
> mis-behaving OS in this case. LILO does something completely non-standard and
> goofy by installing special code in the boot record of the partition table.
> The MBR is supposed to load the boot record of the active primary partition,
> *NOT* load an OS all by itself.
>
> I usually recommend installing LILO in the boot record of the boot
> partition, which makes Linux a well-behaved OS again.
>
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