On Sat, 26 May 2001, Prasanna David G wrote:
|But as I understand, since MBR is in the same disk
|with no physical boundary, why can't one go on writing
|beyond this limit. My doubt is whether lilo checks if
|the data it is going to write is less than the size of
|MBR. I am forced to say this because only after
|installing lilo the second time, I lost my first
|partition. Before that I could boot, mount and do
If the lilo continued writing infinitely until the the *large* MBR was
written you would have lost ALL your partitions... not just the windoze
one!
And I think lilo should check for the size of the mbr its writing! (any
decent program would!)
Your windoze data should still be safe in /dev/hda1... I doubt if lilo
would ruin it!
Why were you editing your lilo.conf file anyways ?? Did you recompile your
kernel or something ??
Kingsly
.:: Kingsly John ICQ 14787510 ::.
--------------------------------------------------
.:: Linux 2.4.3 #10 Mon Apr 23 22:43:11 IST 2001 i686 ::.
--------------------------------------------------------
`:. Posted to the list on Sat May 26 18:30:30 IST 2001 .:'
_______________________________________________
linux-india-help mailing list
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
http://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-india-help
